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Uncle Joe

(60,981 posts) Thu Nov 28, 2024, 12:27 PM Nov 2024

Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book _Our History Is the Future_. "This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country," says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

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Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance (Original Post) Uncle Joe Nov 2024 OP

Thanks for posting. jalan48 Nov 2024 #1

Thanks for posting. We need to entirely rethink the way US history is taught to include the perspectives Estes Martin68 Nov 2024 #2

We used to at least hear about the feast with both peoples. GreenWave Nov 2024 #3

jalan48

(14,724 posts)

1. Thanks for posting.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2024, 12:47 PM

Nov 2024

Thanksgiving has an entirely different meaning for Native Americans. We conveniently avoid talking about this while we're gorging ourselves, preferring the mythology that it was a peaceful coming together between different cultures. Easier on the digestion I guess.

Martin68

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2. Thanks for posting. We need to entirely rethink the way US history is taught to include the perspectives Estes

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2024, 12:49 PM

Nov 2024

presents here.

GreenWave

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3. We used to at least hear about the feast with both peoples.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2024, 03:07 PM

Nov 2024

Now the indigenous are shoved aside from the table and forgotten, while football, family squabbles and shopping sprees occupy the attention.

Genocide from Utqiagvik down to Ushuaia was rampant for the better part of 5 full centuries and still continues in many regions. I think such a death toll would surpass 100,000,000.

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