NATIVE AMERICANS CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING
FOR NATIVE AMERICANS THANKSGIVING = NOT HOLIDAY BUT A CELEBRATION INDULGING IN SOME SELF-CARE
SOME REFER TO THE DAY AS DAY OF MOURNING OF UNTHANKSGIVING DAY
IT IS ABOUT REFLECTING, REMEMBERING AND CELEBRATING THAT WE ARE STILL HERE..."
CEREMONY ON ALCATRAZ ISLAND
TRADITIONAL DANCERS PERFORM + CROWDS GATHER TO WATCH THE SUNRISE AND REMEMBER THE 1969 OCCUPATION OF THE ISLAND
FROM 1969 TO 1971 : 89 NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVISTS OCCUPIED THE ISLAND AND ITS FORMER PENITENTIARY
DEMANDING TO TURN IT INTO AN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER AND SCHOOL
ESTIMATES VARY ON THE NUMBER OF NATIVE AMERICANS WHO WERE WIPED OUT AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF EARLY EUROPEANS IN THE 1500s
THE POPULATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WAS DECIMATED BY 90%
EXPERIENCE LARGE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DISPARITIES
LOWER LIFE EXPECTANCY, INADEQUATE EDUCATION,POVERTY AND DISCRIMINATION
RAY HALBRITTER LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN IN 2013 TO PROTEST THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS TEAM NAME
HALBRITTER + NATIVE AMERICANS ACTIVISTS ARE OUTRAGED
WILL BE HOSTING ITS FIRST EVER THANKSGIVING DAY HOME GAME
THE TEAM IN CONTINUING TO USE THE NAME
IN REFERENCE TO THE PROTESTS ORGANIZED BY NATIVE POEPLE IN NEW ENGLAND
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NATIVE AMERICAN
THEY WERE WELCOME BY THE INDIANS AND THEY WOULD HAVE NOT SURVIVED WITHOUT INDIANS
BECAUSE THIS LAND WAS FOR EVERYONE ACCORDING TO THE INDIANS MENTALITY
THEY LOST A WAR AGAINT THE WHITES
THEY BECAME A MINORITY
INDIANS WERE RECOGNIZED AS AMERICANS CITIZENS IN 1924
MELTING POT THEORY + MANIFEST DESTINY
IN THE 19th RACIST EXPANSIONISTS
RELIGIOUS LEADERS : ALL THIS SAVAGES HAVE TO BE BRING BACK TO CIVILAZATION : SUPERIORITY
SOCIAL DARWINISM
THE US BECAME IMPERIALIST IN THEIR ATITUDE