Image: The legend of Thanksgiving references a harvest feast in 1621. While that story is part of white America's founding mythology, the real story can only be known through exploring indigenous perspectives of history. Christian Scharen, a scholar, pastor of a congregation in Brooklyn, and distant relation of Laura Ingalls, shares his thoughts on the American myth of Thanksgiving and how white Americans can expand their understanding of the past to include Native Americans. Read the Indian Country Today article here.
