By SP Staff
Thanksgiving is often filled with indulgence—from endless feasting to hours of football and parade-watching on television. Amidst the distractions, the historical context of the holiday tends to be overlooked and tossed aside. ScheerPost is happy to provide the thought-provoking eat-your-vegetables perspective on Thanksgiving’s connection to ugly history, especially settler colonialism. From Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s studies on the plight of Native Americans to Jim Mamer’s breakdown of American history textbooks’ interpretation of colonialism, there is plenty of history to absorb this holiday break.
Scheer Intelligence with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Settler Colonialism, Thanksgiving and Gaza
Scheer Intelligence with Chairman Greg Sarris: The Reincarnation of the American Indian
Jim Mamer: Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous Peoples
Jim Mamer: Missing Links in Textbook History: Colonialism
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Ramzy Baroud: The Old and New Nakba: Forced Expulsion of Palestinians Must Be Rejected
Mark Fiore: Thanksgiving for Billionaires
Jessica Corbett: Indigenous People Push Back Against US ‘Thanksgiving Mythology’
Mark P. Fancher: African and Indigenous Peoples: An Alliance for Defense, Survival and Revolution
John Kiriakou: Pardoning Turkeys Instead of Humans
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