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Arguably the best-known of those myths is the story of the first Thanksgiving, a holiday Robert Magnan, who led the buffalo hunt at Fort Peck, does not observe. “Thanksgiving is kind of like Columbus Day for Native people,” he said. “Why would we celebrate people who tried to destroy us?”
Hi'ilei Julia Hobart, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, in front of the Treaty Oak, in Austin, Nov. 6, 2020. (Jessica Attie/The New York Times)
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The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year
The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year
FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION, Mont. -- On a frigid November morning inside a tractor barn in northeast Montana, 10 members of the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes joined in song to bless a thirty-aught-six hunting rifle, and to lift up the spirit of a buffalo they were preparing to kill. One man...
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Brett AndersonHi'ilei Julia Hobart, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, in front of the Treaty Oak, in Austin, Nov. 6, 2020. (Jessica Attie/The New York Times)
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