No thanks for Thanksgiving - eviltoast
Every November, when Thanksgiving is scheduled, I think of the People of the First Nations (so-called Native Americans) and wonder about their mixed feelings for a holiday that celebrates their enormous generosity as well as their near-total destruction. What do they have to be thankful for?

When first they arrived, European settlements were places of disease, hunger and pitiless death. First Nations folk fed the colonists, taught them planting and healed them with herbal treatments. They repaid them with unremitting war, smallpox used as biological weapons, land theft and slaughter.

Thanksgiving may be a holiday, but it ain’t a holy day.

It should be a day in remembrance of the First Nations that inhabited this land for tens of thousands of years.