I am not responsible for what my ancestors did. Nor am I obligated to reverse those “wrongs.”
History is full of bullies, invaders, winners, and losers.
I know that I am not keeping anyone “down.”
That’s the best a person can do.
The conquest of new lands included the disturbance of the indigenous folks’ lifestyles and dishonestly portrayed lives as peaceful and charming. But those are false pictures. The native Americans scrabbled to make a nomadic living, and were in constant wars with rival tribes. Slavery of black Africans was terrible and regrettable in many ways. But as has been stated by more than one historical figure; the people who explored, claimed and developed the continent, and even the slave owners, cruel as some of them were, gave these conquested people a chance at the gift of Christian Salvation; IF they availed themselves of it, as many blacks did and very few “indians” would accept. But to those who did accept, they received Eternal Salvation and everlasting bliss in the next life after this one.
And that’s my opinion.
Even if you were responsible or had any obligation there would be no intersection with a tribe of indians that would come into play.
Thanksgiving has nothing to do with indians. Not the first one, any subsequent one, or the modern one. Its not a celebration of “land taking”.