# Do american Indians celebrate Thanksgiving? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 1999, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532 "1999-11-25T15:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/1 "1999-11-25T15:39:00Z")
I must apologize for what the pilgrims did to them. Still, I hope its not politically incorrect to ask, but do American Indians celebrate Thanksgiving in america? ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/2 "1999-11-25T15:44:00Z")
They don’t get government surplus turkeys? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/3 "1999-11-25T16:13:00Z")
Sure they celebrate…at the casinos they own. ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/4 "1999-11-25T16:26:00Z")
Thanksgiving is a sore spot with many Native Americans (can’t imagine why). In many places they do counter demonstrations to Thanksgiving Day parades and pageants. I don’t begrudge them the casinos. They haven’t had this much fun fleecing the Anglos since they convinced the Southerners that grits were food and not canoe calk. * * * JB Lex Non Favet Delicatorum Votis ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/5 "1999-11-25T17:56:00Z")
The ones I know do… * * * “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” --Edgar Degas ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 1999, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/6 "1999-11-26T06:44:00Z")
I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t want to celebrate the successful European invasion. Those that _did_ survive the genocide, the smallpox, the land-stealing, and the alcoholism are getting a bit of revenge now, though. Forget the casinos. Ever hear of a ceremonial herb called tobacco? ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 1999, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/7 "1999-11-26T05:44:00Z")
## All the ones I know do including my nephew who was sitting three chairs away from me this afternoon. \>^,^\< KITTEN Please tell your pants it’s not polite to point. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 1999, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/8 "1999-11-26T16:51:00Z")
Yes, I got the same answer from a woman sitting next to me yesterday. & they eat turkey, too. wow. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/9 "1999-11-27T04:35:00Z")
Many (dunno about most or how many) do observe it as kind of a day of mourning. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/10 "1999-11-27T04:55:00Z")
Hell, I saw some Indians protesting Columbus Day. As if anyone cares about Columbus Day in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![putrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@putrid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putrid)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/11 "1999-11-27T19:20:00Z")
Did they protest it on the real Columbus Day or on the phony Monday version? I like to protest Columbus stealing the Vikings’ thunder on the real day and protest bogus Monday _holidays_ on the Monday. But on Thanksgiving, mmmmm, I does like my turkey. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 1999, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/12 "1999-11-28T00:15:00Z")
I like to protest Mondays on Fridays, protest Holy Days on holidays, and protest turkeys on any given day. ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 1999, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-indians-celebrate-thanksgiving/11532/13 "1999-11-28T01:28:00Z")
My world mythology teacher who is one fourth Native American (and considers himself NA), does celebrate the holiday. However, his take on it is, that all cultures have a day of celebrating the harvest/thanksgiving, and that’s his reason for celebrating it. He doesn’t celebrate it because pilgrims arrived in the new world and all that though.