“Mommy, mommy, look what I made in school,” your second-grader calls as he jumps off the school bus. He proudly holds up his handprint turkey, decorated with scraps of red, brown and gold tissue paper. “We learned about the first Thanksgiving today. See, when the Pilgrims came to America, they had to grow their own corn and go hunting and stuff. And the Indians helped them, and they had a celebration together to give thanks for all the food and freedom of their new home.”
As Thanksgiving approaches, many public school classrooms will be marking the holiday with various activities, such as turkey lunches and reenactments of the landing at Plymouth Rock. But one aspect of the “First Thanksgiving” will be glaringly absent from all these
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