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Reader Comments: Railroad Workers Deserve Sick Days; More Gun Violence; Jewish Divide Over Netanyahu; Readers Debate Ukraine; Thanksgiving Origins; Afterlife of Paris Commune; Fifty Year Tribute to Juan González; More Announcements; Cartoons;

Ruth Hopkins, a Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer, biologist, attorney, and former tribal judge, breaks down the myths and facts about Thanksgiving and early encounters between Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.

Lincoln' Thanksgiving intended to unite a divided country and to include in an unprecedented way African-Americans in the ideal of liberty announced in 1776. Thanksgiving should be the Fourth of July without enslaved and masters.

Indigenous connections to the earth provide blueprint for halting climate change. After COP26, the great climate change summit and its lack of hard action in addressing climate change, I was reminded of the human relationship to the earth.

Reader Comments: Rittenhouse Verdict - Murder, Judges, Juries, Danger for Country; Removal of Gosar; Cubans Don’t Want Regime Change; Public Libraries; Tolstoy, Gorki, children's books; Dan Georgakas - R.I.P.; Native American History and Life; more.

For many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is not a day of celebration — it’s considered a national day of mourning.

Reader Comments: Biden Administration; Georgia Runoffs; Election Analysis; COVID; Vaccine; Immigrant Teen Nightshift Workers; A Call to Jewish Organizations; Rethinking “Thanksgiving” Toolkit; Lots of Resources and Announcements; more....