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Rebecca Nagle
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Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY out now https://www.harpercollins.com/products/by-the-fire-we-carry-rebecca-nagle?variant=41322925359138
Personally, I don’t believe that AI can replace the human transmission & preservation of Indigenous languages. What do you think? www.hcn.org/articles/can...
Can AI translate Native languages in times of disaster? - High Country News
In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty.
www.hcn.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga teaches Cherokee seasons and traditions. www.charlesbridge.com/products/we-...
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
A look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
www.charlesbridge.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Keepunumuk is a Wampanoag story about Weeâchumun (corn) and what really happened at the first “Thanksgiving”. keepunumuk.com
If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving tells the story of Plymouth Rock from an Indigenous perspective. shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecomm...
Home - Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story
An important picture book that retells the Thanksgiving story for a more inclusive America, a story that honors the Native peoples who made it possible.
keepunumuk.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Thanksgiving were declared to celebrate the massacre of Native people.
The National Museum of the American Indian has a lesson plan diving deeper into the myth here: americanindian.si.edu/nk360/thanks...
Here are some resources 2 teach ur kids about Thanksgiving from an Indigenous perspective:
NMAI Thanksgiving - Home
americanindian.si.edu
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
During this peace, they shared a meal, the details of which we know little. But surrounding that meal was a lot of violence. The man who served as an interpreter knew English because he had been kidnapped and enslaved by Europeans. In the colonial era, sometimes days of
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What really happened at the first Thanksgiving?
The Wampanoag tribe did negotiate a conditional peace with the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Diplomacy between Native nations and European settlers was constant and for Native folks was based on strategy not friendship.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
of the Thanksgiving myth; they helped create it. What did you learn about Thanksgiving in school? What are your kids coming home with now? Let me know in the comments.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is when schools started dressing children up like pilgrims and Indians for the pageantry of a fictionalized meal. By the 1920’s, plays like “The Romance of the Pumpkin” or “When Betty Saw The Pilgrims” were performed in schools nationwide. School plays were not a byproduct..
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
country was changing. In response, schools started focusing on making new, foreign pupils more American. Lessons tied to national holidays and founding mythologies cropped up–and none was more popular than the story of the first Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
clear if he’ll be charged with a hate crime. According to Joss’s husband the shooter yelled homophobic slurs before firing his weapon. www.cbsnews.com/news/jonatha...
Texas man indicted in shooting death of "King of the Hill" voice actor Jonathan Joss
It is unclear whether the killing of "King of the Hill" voice actor Jonathan Joss will be considered a hate crime.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
truth & reconciliation committee.
There has been no national process of truth and reconciliation for the history of forced sterilization. What do you think justice could look like?

nativenewsonline.net/health/stole...
New Mexico Could Be First State to Address Forced Sterilization of Native American Women
Jean Whitehorse's Native name means "Many Children," but she only has one child. This spring, she spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York to explain why...
nativenewsonline.net
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM