Since 1970, the United American Indians of New England have organized the event for Indigenous people on Thanksgiving Day.
Several Native American tribes are set to gather in the seaside town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in order to take part in the annual Thanksgiving event, the National Day of Mourning. The solemn tradition sees Indigenous people and supporters gather on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth during the Thanksgiving holiday to point out that many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers on the fourth Thursday of November. «We want to educate people so that they understand the stories we all learned in school about the first Thanksgiving are nothing but lies,» Kisha James, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag and Oglala Lakota tribes, told the Associated Press. «Wampanoag and other Indigenous people have certainly not lived happily ever after since the arrival of the Pilgrims.
