Do Native American people have their own name for Thanksgiving?

Something which better expresses the sorrow and tragedy that European invasion of their land brought to their people?





Like The Day of Great Regret?





Or Let the Pilgrims Starve Day?





Because if I were a Native American i sure as hell would not want to CELEBRATE my dispossession. Or GIVE THANKS for it!!





And why was my friend not allowed to pose this question in Thanksgiving and Holidays? I have waited an hour for it to appear, only to be told I cannot view it at this time!

Do Native American people have their own name for Thanksgiving?
I have yet to meet a true native American - It's one of the missed opportunities I've regretted, for I've always admired and felt some kinship with their traditional (holistic) way of looking at life. Although I know a lot of Americans who claim to have some relative in the distant past who was one. I've even met a White supremacist nutjob who wanted all African Americans and Muslims to leave America, because he claimed to have some native American blood in him, and therefore was immune from criticism. Obviously, he looked as native as a martian.





Anyway, I know that Thanksgiving Day is known as "The National Day of Mourning" by many Native Americans. The first was held in 1970 and their supporters gather at the top of Coles Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock where the English pilgrims were supposed to have landed.





I think it is a day to reflect on the truly insane injustices that befall on all the indigenous people of the world when aggressors, invaders, thieves, and murderers barge themselves into their homes. We should all try to learn from their forgiveness, generosity of spirit, their struggles, their triumphs, and the wretchedness of our mistakes.
Reply:This makes even sober reading - the truth is stranger than the mythology of Thanksgiving:





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Reply:I cannot comment on this question. I'm a European White and I have too much respect for American Indians and their original ways of life and their understanding of Nature and how the planet functions. I also have a great deal of disdain for the white man's actions all throughout history. There is no excuse for it other than greed.





Indians are so much more above this whole thing that they simply accept it and live their life and continue. Another reason for my admiring them.





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Reply:Paloma


It always amuses me when people call it 'Thanksgiving'!!


Thanksgiving for what? That the Europeans plundered and murdered their way through the Native American land to foist 'civilisation' upon them whether they wanted it or not?!


It's the biggest fairy story I've ever heard along with the fairy story of how George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were 'patriotic heroes', when in truth, Washington was a slave trader and Jefferson raped his black slave women.
Reply:I asked my Indian friend if they celebrate it as Thanksgiving, he said yea.
Reply:There are a lot of American Indians here in Oklahoma and to be honest they are not as bitter as you.
Reply:Nope, cause they were all killed.