AP: Native Americans mark Thanksgiving with day of mourning

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PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Thanksgiving is nothing to celebrate for Native Americans, who are gathering in the town where the Pilgrims settled for a solemn National Day of Mourning observance.

Thursday's noon gathering in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts, will recall the disease, racism and oppression that the European settlers brought.

It's the 49th year that the United American Indians of New England have organized the event on Thanksgiving Day.

Moonanum James, a co-leader of the group, says: "Native people have no reason to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims."

Participants will beat drums, offer prayers and make public speeches. They'll also express their solidarity with refugees from Latin America who are being denied entry to the U.S., and condemn pipeline projects and fracking that they say needlessly and recklessly degrade the environment.

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I'm not saying these people need to get over Columbus and the arrival of Europeans to North America, but they need to get over Columbus and the arrival of Europeans to North America. They're still sour over events that happened well outside living memory. Guess what, assholes, you're not the first people to be conquered by foreign invaders and you won't be the last. Yes...the way you were treated was horrible and atrocities were committed, but that was also a two-way street. Both sides did terrible things. The Europeans are the ones demonized because they were fighting people armed with bows and arrows with horses and guns.

The Indian Wars were at an end by the late-1880s, well outside living memory. Instead of mourning what was and settling for a second rate life style as a result, how about you join the 21st Century and move forward with the rest of us?