The Thanksgiving Tale We Tell Is a Harmful Lie. As a Native American, I’ve Found a Better Way to ...
With something we truly share (and would prefer to talk about anyway)/ Every November, I get asked an unfortunate, loaded question: “You’re a Native American—what do you eat on I was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in in the 1970s and am a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. Growing up, I went to a very small country school on the reservation, in the poorest county in the United States. Our school had predominantly students, but we were still taught what everybody was about Thanksgiving: It represented a time when ...
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