What should Native Americans give thanks for this Thanksgiving?
One final Thanksgiving lesson: a place you love — for me, the US — can also be a country that in some crucial ways has had very few good guys
26 November 2019 - 17:08
American Thanksgiving is typically seen as a celebration of the co-operation between the English who settled the continent and the natives who helped them grow crops and saved them from starvation. It is a story about how multicultural co-operation and private-property incentives, both strong American principles, can boost a harvest.
But as Thanksgiving 2019, November 28, approaches, I am struck by another lesson: America’s need to come to terms with a history that, as it relates to the treatment of Native Americans, has remarkably few heroes on the side of the white settlers...
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