National Native American Day Of Mourning March Takes to the Streets of Plymouth

1 December 2008 - 12:37pm | nosanctions

by Michael Borkson (Participant)

Plymouth, Mass. - United American Indians Of New England, UAINE, held the 39th National Native American Day Of Mourning on Nov. 27, 2008, Thanksgiving (or thanks-"taking") Day. Several hundred supporters turned out to hear words of protest against the Pilgrims and their descendants genocide against the indigenous people of the Americas.

Speakers spoke of how the European settlers stole Native lands and killed Native people - the true history of Thanksgiving. Started in 1970 to protest the State's censorship of a speech by a Wampanoag man, Wamsutta James - a speech telling the true history of the genocide of Thanksgiving.

The Day Of Mourning has taken place every year since then - dedicated to telling the truth of the injustices done to Native people, and to free wrongfully imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

After the speakers, protesters marched through downtown Plymouth and then enjoyed food and fellowship in the hall of the nearby Unitarian Church.

Video of the March Through Plymouth