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    The document summarizes the controversy around Thanksgiving from a Native American perspective. It describes how the peaceful relationship between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans broke down over subsequent decades as colonists took more of the Native Americans' land, leading to tensions and war between the groups known as King Philip's War. As a result, many Native Americans today see Thanksgiving as commemorating the start of the systematic oppression of their people, and observe alternative days like National Day of Mourning instead.

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    MATURITA / FESTIVALS D I F F I C U LT Y / B 1+ audio worksheet

    Thanksgiving
    Controversy Author and recording:
    KRISTEN DE HAAN (USA)

    On the fourth Thursday in November, many Americans pause their busy lives to come together
    with family and celebrate Thanksgiving. Their dining room tables are filled with turkey, mashed
    potatoes, stuffing, and more, to remember the famous feast1 between the Pilgrims and the
    Native Americans. How could a day that celebrates thankfulness be considered controversial?

    I
    n 1620, after a long and tiring journey, the English
    colonists (known as the Pilgrims) stepped off of Not all
    Americans
    their ship onto the shores of the ‘New World.’ celebrate
    Arriving in winter, their first months were difficult and Thanksgiving
    many of them died. The Wampanoag people, who had by eating
    been living there for generations, showed them how to turkey!
    cultivate the land to grow food to eat. In the fall*, the
    colonists celebrated their first harvest with a feast and
    invited Chief Massasoit and the Wampanoag people to
    join the party. For three days they ate and celebrated
    together. It is a lovely story of friendship, gratitude2 and
    peaceful co-existence.

    However, the peace between the colonists and Wampanoag


    only lasted a generation. During the decades that
    followed the first thanksgiving, the colonists began
    settling3 on more and
    Metacom, the more of the Wampanoag’s
    chief of the
    Wampanoag land and tensions4
    tribe. between the two groups
    grew. After Massasoit’s
    death, his son Metacom
    (also known as Philip)
    became the new chief.

    When a Christian Native


    American was found murdered,
    the colonists blamed5 three
    Wampanoag men and
    murdered them. Metacom 14 months, the two sides attacked each other until
    was angry and began Metacom was killed in battle. Thousands of Native
    raiding6 the colonies Americans and hundreds of colonists died in the war
    and killing some of the which is known as King Philip’s War. Many of the
    colonists. The English surviving Native Americans were sold into slavery8.
    responded by declaring
    war on the Wampanoag Unfortunately, the relationship between the Native
    and some other native Americans and European colonists was more often
    tribes7. For the next bloody and violent than peaceful and friendly. This

    1 |  NOVEMBER 2020


    s Pilgrims step off of their ship onto11 the eastern shore of America, near Plymouth. s Native American speaks to the Pilgrim.

    of November to be the National Day of Mourning. At

    Photo: deagreez1 (Depositphotos), Morphart, Archivist, Mayer (Adobe Stock)


    noon, they come together near the site where the Pilgrims
    landed to play drums, pray, and give speeches. They have
    been celebrating this way for 50 years.

    Unthanksgiving Day
    Similarly, on the other side of the country, thousands
    of Native Americans travel to Alcatraz island for
    Unthanksgiving Day. Before sunrise, they remember
    their ancestors10 by beating drums, dancing, and praying
    around a bonfire. They also have speeches and talks
    about the current difficulties that many native tribes face
    today. They gather on Alcatraz island because it was
    the site of a 19-month long occupation in 1969 that is
    considered to be the beginning of the Native American
    rights movement.
    Go to:
    Other Native Americans do choose to
    celebrate Thanksgiving. You can read some
    different Native American perspectives here:

    LANGUAGE NOTE
    * fall (Am. E.) – autumn (Br. E.)

    VOCABULARY
    1
    feast [fiːst] – hody
    2
    gratitude [ˈɡrætɪtjuːd] – vděčnost
    pattern of violence continued after the United States was 3
    to settle [ˈsetl] – usadit se
    formed and it has resulted in the loss of Native American 4
    tension [ˈtenʃn] – napětí
    tribes, languages, and culture.
    5
    to blame [bleɪm] – obviňovat
    6
    to raid [reɪd] – útočit
    National Day of Mourning9 7
    tribe [traɪb] – kmen
    8
    slavery [ˈsleɪvəri] – otroctví
    Because of this long history of violence, many Native 9
    mourning [ˈmɔːnɪŋ] – truchlení
    Americans today do not see the arrival of the Pilgrims as 10
    ancestor [ˈænsestə] – předek
    something to be celebrated. On the east coast of the US, 11
    onto [ˈɒntə] – na
    some Native Americans consider the fourth Thursday

    NOVEMBER 2020  | 2

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