#Thanksgiving: A Jadaliyya Reading List
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The last Thursday of every November is the most broadly celebrated national holiday in the United States. Called “Thanksgiving,” the holiday is a celebration of the settling of the Americas and the subsequent consolidation, expansion, and formation of the United States—a process that took almost three hundred years to produce today’s national borders. For American Indians, Thanksgiving is just only one more day of colonization, and the normalization of settler colonialism, in the contemporary United States.