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On the first day of Thanksgiving the natives gave to me a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch.

On the second day of Thanksgiving the natives gave to me

two turkey gobblers and a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch.

On the third day of Thanksgiving the natives gave to me

three native headdresses, two turkey goblers, and a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch.

That's a song from the opening scene of the theater production Thanksgiving Play. It ran earlier

this year on Broadway and was written by Larissa Fast Horse, the first known

Native American woman Playwright to produce a Broadway production.

Thanksgiving Play is a satire that focuses play

to produce a Broadway production. Thanksgiving play is a satire that focuses on four well-meaning white people trying to put on

a politically correct holiday school production for Native American Heritage Month. They even hire who they believe is a Native American

actor, but later discovers she is also white. During its off-Broadway run, it became one of the ten most produced plays in America with runs at universities and community

theaters.

But the success for Fast Horse comes after years of trying and failing to get theaters to consider

stories that center Native American characters. It was only

after Thanksgiving play that major doors began to open.

Larissa Fast Horse is of the Sichangu Lakota Nation.

Her latest play For The People ran earlier this month

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