“For the most part, everything that people are typically taught about Thanksgiving is wrong — unless craft hour is skipped over and they're taught that Thanksgiving is a holiday with roots in the mass killings of millions of Indigenous peoples. Unfortunately, many American public schools still teach a romanticized version of Thanksgiving instead of the true history of what actually went down during the first meetings between Natives and colonizers. Those misconceptions can change by having people not only learn the real history behind Thanksgiving, but also the history of the systematic oppression of Native Americans and Alaska Natives in the United States. This November, in the spirit of “Truthsgiving” and Native American Heritage Month, check out these 10 films and documentaries that put a spotlight on how the United States has wronged the Indigenous peoples of the Americas throughout history.”

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