A Racial Justice Guide to Thanksgiving for Educators and Families

Compiled - The Center for Racial Justice in Education

Teaching Approaches

• A Culturally Responsive Approach to Discussing Thanksgiving in The Classroom - Linday Barrett

• Decolonizing Thanksgiving: A Toolkit for Combatting Racism in Schools - Lindsey Passenger Wieck

• Teaching about Thanksgiving - LearnNC (UNC School of Education)

• How Does the TT Community Teach Thanksgiving? - Teaching Tolerance

• Teaching Thanksgiving from a Native American Perspective - Holly Maeder Sheehan (http://www.bigpicture.org)

• Culturally Responsive Instruction for Holiday and Religious Celebrations - Dr. Cynthia Lundgren & Giselle Lundy-Ponce

• Teaching Culturally Sensitive Holidays - Sherry Posnick-Goodwin (California Teachers Associations)

• Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way - Teaching Tolerance

• Teaching Thanksgiving from the Perspective of Native Americans - Christina “Krea” Gomez

Lesson Plans/ Study Guides

• Thanksgiving Mourning (Lesson Plan) - Teaching Tolerance

• Relearning Thanksgiving (Lesson Plan) - ArtsandJustice.org

• Myth and Truth: The "First Thanksgiving" (Lesson Plan) - readwritethink.org

• Celebrations of the Wampanoag Tribe (Lesson Plan) - WampanoagTribe.net

• Re-Thinking Thanksgiving: The Complete Story of an American Holiday (Graphic Organizers) - New York News Publishers Association

• Thanksgiving Interactive: You are the Historian - Plimoth Plantation

• Harvest Ceremony Beyond the Thanksgiving Myth: A Study Guide - The National Museum of the American Indian

• #StandingRockSyllabus, NYC Stands with Standing Rock

Native American Perspectives, Contributions and Celebrations

• Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address - DanceForAllPeople.com

• Native American Contributions to the U.S. - Partnership with Native Americans

• Thanksgiving POV - Native American Heritage Programs

• American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving - The National Museum of the American Indian

• For Many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a Day of Mourning - The Boston Globe

• Do American Indians celebrate Thanksgiving? - The National Museum of the American Indian

• Do Native Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving and Should You? - Nadra Kareem Nittle

• Thanksgiving 2017: Natives Americans reveal what they think about the day - Andrew Bumcombe

• Don't be afraid to talk about the real history behind Thanksgiving (Video) - ATTN

Historical Resources

• No Thanks: How Thanksgiving Narratives Erase the Genocide of Native Peoples - Joanne Barker

• Re-Thinking Thanksgiving: Myths & Misgivings - Rethinking Schools

• PBS Series: We Shall Remain - PBS

• Thanksgiving: The annual genocide whitewash - Belen Fernandez

• Thanksgiving and the Conundrum of Cultural Racism - Scot Nakagawa

Resources for Families

• A Letter to Parents About Thanksgiving - Understanding Prejudice.org

• 10 Ways to Make Your Thanksgiving About Social and Environmental Justice - Eve Bratman

• Forced to Dine With a Racist Uncle on Thanksgiving? Text This Holiday Hotline - Jorge Rivas

• A Letter to Parents About Thanksgiving - Understanding Prejudice

• A Racial Justice Guide to Thanksgiving for Educators and Families - John Carroll University

Book Lists

• 7 Thanksgiving Books for Kids Written From the Native Perspective - Cool Mom Picks

• Beyond the So-Called First Thanksgiving: 5 Children’s Books That Set the Record Straight - Indian Country Today

• Native American Children’s Literature Recommended Reading List - First Nations Development Institute

• Kids' Books That Share True Stories of Native Peoples - Sharon Chang

• 40 Children's Books Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Mighty Girls - A Mighty Girl