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Reject “Thanks-Taking,” Join in National Day of Mourning
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
24 Nov 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Reject “Thanks-Taking,” Join in National Day of Mourning

“Instead of celebrating genocide, the National Day of Mourning was created to destroy the Pilgrim mythology” that led to “not a nation of immigrants, but of colonizers,” said Nick Estes, a Lower Brule Sioux and co-founder of The Red Nation. The Day of Mourning “celebrates indigenous resistance” to the European invasion, said Estes, a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Native American Genocide

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