Published: July 31, 2023
The Wampanoags’ alliance with the Pilgrims in 1621 was less about forging community than about ensuring survival at a time of tremendous change. And, initially, the pious newcomers didn’t even invite the Wampanoags to the revelry. More sobering still, the yarn often spun in the U.S. doesn’t mention the fact that Indigenous people’s encounters with English colonists were marked by incalculable loss from genocide, disease, and theft of land. Established in 1970, National Day of Mourning turns the fourth Thursday of November into something more honest.
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