In particular, why and since when they have Black Friday or Black Friday in the United States, it is not clear. Yes, the Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving is associated with the big party, which takes place each year the day after the last Thursday of November. In 1951, the name of Black Friday appeared to represent exactly what many workers have taken the day after Thanksgiving for their seniors. In 1961, however, they used it to refer to other phenomena such as the return of each one the day after the Family Seminary or the use of the rest day to buy Christmas gifts. Stores began proposing sales in the 1970s, increasing the phenomenon to the present extreme year by year.

In recent years it has also been consolidated that thousands and thousands of Euskaldunes take advantage of the attractive discounts that have been proposed on the Internet or in shops. Of course, and thank you, as in the United States, the consumer capitalist society, coined by Black Friday, has been constrained by many of these people, based on social, economic and ecological reasons for the boycott.
But if we look at the eve of that Friday, Thanksgiving and his morning become even more denounceable. “Thanksgiving is a very complicated day for many Amerindian families; the opposite cannot be true when real and false stories are known about the first meetings between settlers and autochthonous.” They're words from author Lyla June, which was published at the Plimoth Field Place Museum in Massachusetts.

This museum tells of the arrival of the Plymouth colony, the second colony located in the territory called America, being the first Jamestown. To understand Thanksgiving, we have to go back 400 years. It is based on a gigantic meal held in 1621, according to the official Hegemonic and White History, a joyful apologue between the autochthonous and the settlers, symbol of fraternity and solidarity. The story is beautiful. The settlers shot down in 1620 were not good hunters, not tasty labourers, or good fishermen. In this way, hunger took hold of many, half of those who had approached the official figures. The following year, the inhabitants of Wampanoag crossed and thanks to the knowledge and advice they received, survived and adapted to it. Thanksgiving was supposedly the time to thank you for everything.

This is the message that has passed year after year, decades and at the end, centuries after century, and that today is still the symbol of good coexistence for the majority. Within tradition, Thanksgiving is rooted in all houses. The menu also depends on this story: as at the time, the feathered turkey – either in the White House or in the closed housing of the poor neighborhood, in all of them the feathered turkey –.

The report Derrière la fête de famille de Thanksgiving is cache l’un des pires génodes de l’Histoire (“One of the bloodiest genocides in history is kept at the Thanksgiving family holiday”) rewrites in detail the event of 400 years of discharge.

The memory of a massacre

A “federative myth”, according to the author of the report Matthieu García. “A symbol of sharing and national unity, this memory is an insult to the descendants of Amerindians; we are in an exaggerated praise of the Pequot massacre that do not mention the school books.” It is precisely this three-day party, although there was one, that was not repeated. However, the official decision to mark the day and repeat it every year was taken in 1637 by the settlers.

What happened in the Pequot massacre on 26 May 1637? After Captain John Mason gave the order to surround the people, the settlers and their allies burned the people and killed the survivors. In total, between 600 and 700 months according to historians. The holy day of the autochthonous became a bloody massacre to celebrate the green corn dance. Since the fall of 1636, there was an atmosphere of war between the English settlers and their Pequots, which allowed them to resist the colonization of bodies and lands. The day after the killing, the colony governor at Massachusetts Bay noted Thanskgiving Day or Thanskgiving Action. “From today we will celebrate Thanksgiving to thank God for the elimination of 700 men, women and children.”

“Think about what you do with Thanksgiving Dutch” republicoflakotah.com posts on the web Cooking the History Books: The Thanksgiving Massacre (“Cooking History Books: Report “Thanksgiving sarraskia”. There were about 8,000 Pequots before the arrival of the settlers, and fifteen years later it was 1,500, after most of the diseases brought by the Europeans had died. Almost all those left were killed in that 1637 massacre. “It’s very important to make this truth known, because the Thanksgiving, which is of great importance in the lives of Americans, is based on many lies,” said Lyla June.

The United American Indians of New England is a structure of indigenous activists that in 1970 declared Mourning Day and since then, it is a day to remember the genocide suffered, a key moment in the healing and healing process. Because if they don't, nobody will. Proof of this is that Mourning Day has been set for 50 years. The 350th birthday of the settler landing that year was censored by the speech of the native Kari Wamsutta Frank James. In response, the last Thursday of November was named Mourning Day. They want it to be a day to focus on truth, recognition and reparation.

But the tradition of this great family food, which is also celebrated among the locals, is so deeply rooted. In this sense, more than the boycott, Nephi Craig, the famous indigenous cook Thanksgiving, is proposing a way to celebrate Thanksgiving in a decolonial way: cooking with its indigenous benefits. He also recommends to thank the landscapes and fertile lands that we have thanks to our ancestors and to remember that “a road to peace can be built by cooking and eating”. Look at pain in the eyes and take another step in decolonial healing. And for you Europeans have one more reason to turn their backs on Black Friday.