Is an “indigenized” Thanksgiving possible?

Many of us were taught a mythical story about Thanksgiving at a very young age. Fables of white settlers coming together with Native Americans, breaking bread and finding community and connection with one another.

For many indigenous people, that story has always been seen as false – an attempt to rewrite history and frame the settler colonialism, genocide, and oppression the United States is built on as good, just, widely agreed-upon and consented to.

Many peoples native to this land, and their allies, view Thanksgiving as a day of mourning and protest.

Waylon Pretends Eagle has a differing perspective – one built on reclamation and a continuation of the work we can do year round to “re-indigenize” our world. KGNU’s Jackie Sedley sat down with him the day before Thanksgiving to learn more.

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