Issue #185 November 2025
All out for national day of mourning! The 56th National Day of Mourning will be commemorated on Nov. 27, in Plymouth, MA. on so-called “Thanksgiving Thursday.” Since 1970, hundreds of Native people and non-Native allies have gathered annually in Plymouth on U.S. Thanksgiving Day. This year, in addition to the live program in Plymouth, the event will be livestreamed on hate5six’s YouTube channel starting at 12 p.m. The commemoration begins and ends with a prayer ceremony, and participants will listen to speeches and march through the streets of Plymouth. While only Indigenous people are invited to speak, non-Native allies are encouraged to attend.
first official day of ‘Thanksgiving’ was declared in Massachusetts in 1637 by Puritan Governor Winthrop to celebrate the massacre of over 700 Pequot men, women, and children on the banks of the Mystic River in Connecticut. Wampanoag and other Indigenous people have certainly not lived happily ever after since the arrival of the Pilgrims. To us, Thanksgiving is a Day of Mourning, because we remember the millions of our ancestors who were murdered by the Pilgrims and subsequent generations of settlers. It is a time when we and many Indigenous people around the country say, ‘No Thanks, No Giving.’»
James shared that much of the day will also be devoted to speaking about contemporary Indigenous issues. “Native people have no reason to “More than 400 years after the arrival celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims. We of the Mayflower, Indigenous people want to educate people about the true are still denied basic human rights and origins of the first Thanksgiving, which full control of their own homelands. were far bloodier than the Thanksgiving Change is long past due. We are still myth of happy Pilgrims and Indians,” facing many of the issues that our said United American Indians of New elders talked about in 1970 at the first England co-leader Kisha James. National Day of Mourning. We call on “Many people still don’t realize that the non-Native people to listen to Indigenous voices, especially about how to address the climate crisis, and to join us in trying to stop the continued destruction of our
homelands and waterways by greedy corporations. Native lands must be returned to our control in order to ensure a future for all of life on earth.”
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UAINE co-leader Mahtowin Munro added, “From Peru to British Transportation information and many Columbia, from Boston to Gaza, other details can be found at the Indigenous peoples are defending facebook event: https://www.facebook. their sovereignty and insisting that com/events/1918990738650146 and nothing should happen on their lands on the UAINE facebook group. without their freely given consent. -------UNITED AMERICAN INDIANS Indigenous solidarity and resistance OF NEW ENGLAND (UAINE) are international. We stand in solidarity with all the Indigenous nations opposing pipelines, mines, megadams, and other destructive projects. I’m also sure that many of those in attendance will support the call of millions around the world to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Now more than ever, we all need to join together in solidarity.” PAGE LAYOUTS:
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