After organizers sought to restrict his account of colonial violence, Wampanoag speaker Wamsutta Frank James joined an alternative Thanksgiving gathering in Plymouth. The protest challenged celebratory narratives that silenced Indigenous dispossession. It established a continuing occasion for mourning ancestors, affirming survival and placing Indigenous voices at the centre of accounts of colonization.
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The first National Day of Mourning challenged accounts of colonization that excluded Indigenous experiences.
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The protest foregrounded dispossession, survival and Indigenous authority to recount history.