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What Thanksgiving Really Is

Officially, Thanksgiving is supposed to be about:

• Giving thanks for blessings

• Sharing food with family

• Celebrating unity between Pilgrims and Native peoples

This is the storybook version, a national myth created in the 1800s to give the United States a feel-good origin story. The real history is far darker.

The Myth vs. the Reality

The holiday was invented long after the supposed event.

The popular image of Pilgrims and Wampanoag sharing a peaceful feast was constructed and sanitized centuries later. It was not a cherished tradition. Thanksgiving did not become a national holiday until 1863, when Abraham Lincoln used it to create unity during the Civil War.

What followed early contact was not gratitude. It was genocide.

After brief alliances, the reality included:

• Massacres of entire Native nations

• Forced removals and broken treaties

• Children taken into boarding schools

• Starvation, epidemics, and military campaigns

• Communities pushed onto reservations far from ancestral lands

European settlement required the destruction and displacement of the people already living here.

What Are We Giving Thanks For?

What is America actually celebrating?

• Pilgrims giving thanks for a harvest after the land was violently taken

• A “divine blessing” on a continent seized through war, theft, and disease

• A myth where Native people appear briefly to help the Pilgrims, then conveniently disappear

For many Indigenous communities, today is not Thanksgiving at all. It is:

• A Day of Mourning

• A day of resistance

• A reminder of survival despite attempted erasure

It is not a celebration and not a feast.

Eating turkey while entire Native communities remain in poverty, on poisoned land, in toxic FEMA trailers, and under systems built to keep them invisible is, in many ways, a ritual of dancing on graves.

About the Name “America”

Mainstream history attributes the continent’s name to Amerigo Vespucci.
But some Christian, esoteric, and Masonic writers offer a symbolic alternative:

• “Amaru” was the Incan plumed serpent deity

• “Amaruca” meant “Land of the Serpent”

• Quetzalcoatl was the serpent-god across Mesoamerica

• In Christian symbolism, the serpent represents Lucifer

This interpretation is not standard history, but it appears in occult and revisionist scholarship. The metaphor is unsettling:

A nation named after a serpent deity.
A nation built on inversion.
A nation that preaches freedom while rooted in genocide, slavery, and exploitation.

Whether taken literally or symbolically, the message lands the same.

And Today?

Native communities in the United States still face:

• Dispossession and environmental poisoning

• Poverty engineered through federal policy

• Reservation systems designed to weaken nations

• High rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women

• Drug crises framed as moral failure rather than trauma

• Stereotypes that blame the victims of a system built against them

And yet America gathers around the table and tells itself a comforting story.

A Holiday Built on a Lie

Thanksgiving depends on forgetting:

• Forgetting the land theft

• Forgetting the broken treaties

• Forgetting the forced removals

• Forgetting the children who never returned from boarding schools

• Forgetting the communities still living with the consequences

It is a holiday built on a lie, and the lie requires national amnesia.

I refuse to participate in a ritual of forgetting.

Closing Thoughts

As this holiday winds down, one truth remains: gratitude means nothing if it is built on forgetting. We cannot celebrate abundance while ignoring the people who were pushed aside so this country could claim it. We cannot speak of blessings without acknowledging the cost paid by those who were here long before us.

Thanksgiving remains a feel-good story only if we agree not to look too closely.
But once you see the real history — the violence, the displacement, the broken promises — you cannot unsee it. And you should not.

I am not interested in a holiday that asks me to pretend.
I am interested in honesty, accountability, and restoring the voices of the people erased from the narrative.

So today, instead of celebrating a myth, I choose to remember the truth.
I choose to honor those who survived.
And I refuse to join a national ritual of pretending everything is fine.

If gratitude means anything at all, it starts with facing the past — not hiding from it.