A Day of Thanks

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In the article, “In the Indian view, a day of no thanks,” Ward Churchill argues why he thinks Indians should not celebrate on Thanksgiving. To Americans it is a day to be thankful that the English settlers survived and colonized America. For American Indians it was the day they welcomed settlers that would eventually overrun and try to exterminate them.

Churchill asks the reader why should the Indians who fed the starving colonists the winter before appreciate those same colonists who performed many massacres at such sites as…

I believe that from an Indian perspective to look at thanksgiving in the past is pointless, because there is nothing but massacres and sorrow. One would have to look forward and see that living in America has given great potential to do or become something great such as a political leader or be wealthy among many other things. If one looks at thanksgiving in the past then they have no reason to give thanks, but one should look at the future and see all the potential America has given every culture....