Thanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning

http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Nov2006/munropr1106.html

"About the only true thing in the whole mythology is that these pitiful European strangers would not have survived their first several years in “New England” were it not for the aid of Wampanoag people. What Native people got in return for this help was genocide, theft of their lands, and never-ending repression. They were treated either as quaint relics from the past or virtually invisible."