
Update, November 22, 2014: I have updated this post here.
The point (fig. 1) is, of course, well taken. Historically, Thanksgiving is about genocide. As the Native American Encyclopedia gently—perhaps too gently—puts it,
To the Indians, Thanksgiving would mean a totally different thing. This was the beginning of their end – a time where they had given up their land in return for gifts that were full of disease – which would kill many of them later down the road.[1]
- [1]Native American Encyclopedia, “Thanksgiving,” August 30, 2011, http://nativeamericanencyclopedia.com/thanksgiving/↩