53rd Annual National Day of Mourning in Plymouth Massachusetts

Continuing from 1970 when Frank James refused demands by city fathers to drastically change his Thanksgiving Day speech, an alternative commemoration. Organized by United American Indians of New England, Native people from the Americas and beyond reveal truths about Native peoples.

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Mahtowin Munro, one of the co-founders and a main leader of United American Indians of New England (with a signing interpreter)

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