The winter passed and spring gave and life embraced us back.

And we few, we very few who were spared, found help from an unexpected quarter.

Help from those very savages we had so feared, from Massasoit and the ever-fateful squanto.

From them we learned how to sow our crops, how to work long hours, where to fish for herring and alewives.

We worked in common.

Men and women, pilgrim and stranger, white man and Indians.

And at last the harvest time game.

And with it, our Thanksgiving. So we are joined by some special guests, a returning guest to the show.

We have with us, Matoui and Kimimila.

Can we start by having you all introduce yourself and the organization you're with and where are you calling from.

My name is Matoi, as you said, and I'm co-leader of United American Indians of New England and also the lead organizer for the Massachusetts Indigenous People's Day statewide movement.

And we're speaking to you from Boston.

My name's Keisha. I'm a senior at Wellesley College. I'm president of the Wellesley College

Native American Student Association. I'm a volunteer with United American Indians of New England

and my grandfather founded National Day of Morning.

Thanks for that. Again, it's a pleasure to have you both on here again.

So this Thursday is Thanksgiving when most people are listening to this podcast.

It's a settler holiday and a national origin story, a washed in horrific violence.

And despite the common trope that the United States is a nation of

immigrants, the history of the first Thanksgiving suggests otherwise. Immigrants come to a foreign

land to become naturalized within the existing social order. Settlers, on the other hand,

come to replace the existing social order.

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