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It is about truth, respect, and listening to First Nations voices - past, present, and future. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. #Australia #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #InvasionDay #SurvivalDay #DayOfMourning

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Always Was, Always Will Be, Ab...

DoomsdaysCW Nov 27

#LeonardPeltier is speaking (via videoconference).

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DoomsdaysCW Nov 27

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Another powerful speech from #KishaJames!

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DoomsdaysCW Nov 27

#LeonardPeltier: #NationalDayOfMourning Address, 2025

11/27/2027

"Filmed at Leonard Peltier's home on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in association with @leonard_pod. Produced by @hate5sixofficial @mbdfilms @afulleraf @chaseironeyes. Special thanks to @earthstreammedia."

https://www.youtube.com/live/Ul9U3ppkN3s?pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

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Leonard Peltier: National Day of Mourning Address, 2025

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them Nov 27

Recognize whose lands these are on which we stand….

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emeritrix Nov 27

This piece from 2019 draws on writing by indigenous activists and historians to trace the myth of Thanksgiving, note the history of native resistance to genocide, and touch on the work of activists with the Lakota Law Project and The Red Nation.

partial text:
In his book This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving, historian David Silverman summarizes the Myth, in which

friendly Indians, unidentified by tribe, welcome the Pilgrims to America, teach them how to live in this new place, sit down to dinner with them and then disappear. They hand off America to white people so they can create a great nation dedicated to liberty, opportunity and Christianity for the rest of the world to profit. That’s the story—it’s about Native people conceding to colonialism.

This story omits the history of at least 12,000 years of indigenous life on this continent, and about a hundred years of colonialism in New England before that 1621 feast. The Wampanoags—or at least some of them, led by Ousamequin, often called by his title, Massasoit--were interested in allying with the English at Plymouth not out of noble friendliness but because the tribe had already been decimated by disease brought by the European arrivals, and wanted allies in maintaining their territory against their traditional rivals the Narragansets, who had escaped the epidemic.

It also omits what came later, including the continued seizure of native lands. Philip Deloria, writing in the New Yorker, summarizes “the ways the English repaid their new allies”:

The settlers pressed hard to acquire Indian land through “sales” driven by debt, threat, alliance politics, and violence. They denied the coequal civil and criminal jurisdiction of the alliance, charging Indians under English law and sentencing them to unpayable fines, imprisonment, even executions.

In 1637 the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared a day of Thanksgiving to celebrate the massacre of 700 men women and children of the Pequot tribe, after which the survivors were enslaved and some of them sent to the Caribbean

This sort of treatment led the natives to realize that, as Silverman puts it, “if they didn't rise up immediately, they were going to become [at best] landless subordinates to English authority.”

Native groups joined together in what became known as King Philip’s war. As Deloria tells it, in

1675 and 1676 Native soldiers attacked fifty-two towns in New England, destroyed seventeen of them, and killed a substantial portion of the settler population. The region also lost as much as forty per cent of its Native population, who fought on both sides. The war split Wampanoags, as well as every other Native group, and ended with indigenous resistance broken, and the colonists giving thanks.

Part of the Plymouth celebration included mounting the head of Ousamequin’s son Pumetacom “above their town on a pike, where it remained for two decades.” Deloria points out that,

Like most Colonial wars, this one was a giant slave expedition, marked by the seizure and sale of Indian people. Wampanoags were judged criminals and—in a foreshadowing of the convict-labor provision of the Thirteenth Amendment—sold into bondage. During the next two centuries, New England Indians also suffered indentured servitude, convict labor, and debt peonage, which often resulted in the enslavement of the debtor’s children.

The less brutal holiday that we celebrate today took shape two centuries later, as an effort to entrench an imagined American community. In 1841, the Reverend Alexander Young explicitly linked three things: the 1621 “rejoicing,” the tradition of autumnal harvest festivals, and the name Thanksgiving. ...

A couple of decades later, Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, proposed a day of unity and remembrance to counter the trauma of the Civil War, and in 1863 Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November to be that national holiday, following Young’s lead in calling it Thanksgiving.

As Silverman argues, the myth and the holiday

gained purchase in the late 19th century, when there was an enormous amount of anxiety and agitation over immigration. The white Protestant stock of the United States was widely unhappy about the influx of European Catholics and Jews, and wanted to assert its cultural authority over these newcomers. How better to do that than to create this national founding myth around the Pilgrims and the Indians inviting them to take over the land?

This mythmaking was also impacted by the racial politics of the late 19th century. The Indian Wars were coming to a close and that was an opportune time to have Indians included in a national founding myth. You couldn’t have done that when people were reading newspaper accounts on a regular basis of atrocious violence between white Americans and Native people in the West. What’s more, during Reconstruction, that Thanksgiving myth allowed New Englanders to create this idea that bloodless colonialism in their region was the origin of the country, having nothing to do with the Indian Wars and slavery.

In 1970, Wampanoag leader Wamsutta Frank James was invited to give a speech at a banquet celebrating the 350th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims, and planned to include the Pequot Massacre and the story of King Phillip’s War in his remarks. But after reading a draft of his talking points, the dinner’s organizers decided to cancel the speech, which prompted James to start the National Day of Mourning.

Perhaps ironically, the annual day of mourning takes place on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, site of a statue of Massasoit. Such statues proliferated in the early twentieth century, much as Confederate monuments did, and for similar reasons. Lisa Blee and Jean O’Brien suggest in their book Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit that The Massasoit statue links “the mythic memory of the 1621 feast with the racial, ethnic, and national-identity politics of 1921, when the original statue was commissioned.” The legend of the generous indians and the harmonious feast with the Pilgrims provides a tale of white, Protestant founders to divert attention from early twentieth century immigration and Jim Crow violence.

These conflicts are of course not just historical....

#DayOfMourning

full text and audio at the link

https://kboo.fm/media/77222-post-thanksgiving-digest

DoomsdaysCW Nov 27

[LIVE] #NationalDayOfMourning 2025, (27 November 25 @ 12pm ET)

"Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of Native cultures. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Indigenous ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection, as well as a protest against the racism and oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience worldwide."

National Day of Mourning
Thursday, November 27, 2025
12:00 Noon
Cole's Hill (above Plymouth Rock), Plymouth, MA

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6pHDBg

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[LIVE] National Day of Mourning 2025, (27 November 25 @ 12pm ET)

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DoomsdaysCW Nov 27

#BrooklynNY to #PlymouthMA - Thursday, November 27
#NationalDayOfMourning

Bus leaves @ 6am
Location: Flanbwayan
3116 Clarendon Rd.
(Bet. E. 31st & E. 32nd)
#BrooklynNY 11226
Bus fee $50
(#2 or 5 train to Beverly)

FMI - https://www.uaine.org/2025_ndom/NDOM%20Orientation%202025.pdf

https://www.uaine.org/

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DoomsdaysCW Nov 27

ORIENTATION FOR NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING 11/27/25

WHAT IS NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING?

An annual tradition since 1970, National Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day. Many of us fast from sundown the day before through the afternoon of that day (and have a social after NDOM so that participants in NDOM can break their fasts). We are mourning our ancestors and the genocide of our peoples and the theft of our lands. NDOM is a day when we mourn, but we also feel our strength in action and solidarity.

WHEN AND WHERE IS DAY OF MOURNING?

Thursday, November 27, 2025 (U.S. "thanksgiving" day) at Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 12 noon SHARP. Cole's Hill is the hill above Plymouth Rock in the Plymouth historic waterfront area. The rallies and marches will last until approximately 3 pm.

WILL THERE BE A MARCH?

Yes, there will be a march through the historic district of Plymouth. Plymouth agreed, as part of the settlement of 10/19/98, that UAINE may march on National Day of Mourning without the need for a permit as long as we give the town advance notice.

PROGRAM

Although we very much welcome our non-Native supporters to join us, it is a day when only Indigenous people speak about our history and the struggles that are taking place throughout the Americas. Speakers are by invitation only. This year's NDOM will be livestreamed from Plymouth.

Note that NDOM is not a powwow or commercial event, so we ask that people do not sell merchandise or distribute leaflets at the outdoor program. We will have UAINE t-shirts available for sale following the march.
We also ask that you do not eat (unless you must do so for medical reasons) at the outdoor speak-out and march out of respect for the participants who are fasting.
Dress for the weather!

SOCIAL

There will be box lunches available for distribution after the march (turkey and vegan), but we will not have a full sit-down social.

FMI - www.uaine.org

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