Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story health She refuses to deal in

She refuses to deal in the tropes of redemption and reconciliation—which just shows how much strength it takes not to judge another's life or lie about it

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and it is the story of her life work: helping other adoptees and tribal communities to reconcile the enormous harms caused by widespread removals

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Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story health She refuses to deal inIn this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition, two kids from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe learn the story of Weechumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving story that most Americans know celebrates the Pilgrims. But without members of the Wampanoag tribe who already lived on the land where the Pilgrims settled, the Pilgrims would never have made it through their first winter. And without Weechumun (corn), the Native people wouldn't