Map: "Indian Country" from NatGeo 
If Native people, cultures, and languages seem invisible, it's because of deliberate colonial erasure. Indigenous people are ๐๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ.
Natives in the Northeast are survivors of genocide and 400 years of such erasure. Their communities practice a living culture. It's not even that they're misunderstood - it's that false colonial narratives contend that they ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฒ๐
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The Thanksgiving narrative imagines that Native people just appeared to feed the Pilgrims before magically disappearing again, when you could just ๐ฎ๐๐ธ the Wรดpanรขak, or the Lenape, or the Mohicans today about their their peoples' history long before the Pilgrims landed.
Be thankful you didn't grow up in a country that forced you to read a book called "The Last of the Anglos" or whatever.
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