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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9804840" data-attributes="member: 50987">My spouse and my mother-in-law are both Native American (Chippewa Nation) so we have strong feelings about colonialism and genocide, and the American mythology of pilgrims and The Mayflower.  But we also love to cook and eat and make merry, and we love having a holiday that is set aside just for family and friends to hang out and share a good meal.  How could we square the two?We decided that the hobbits have the right of it.  We stock the pantry with pies, cheese, bread, wine, meats, and cakes and ale in the days leading up to the holiday.  Then, we invite all our friends over to visit at any time of the day:  arrive at 7:00 a.m. and you'll be just in time for Breakfast.  Around 9:00 a.m. you'll get to enjoy Second Breakfast.  Elevenses at 11:00, of course, and Luncheon at 1:00, and Afternoon Tea at 3:00, etc.  We pull different foods out of the pantry, oven, and fridge at different times of the day, and the guests rotate out all day long as people drop by on their way to or from Wherever The Road Takes Them.So technically we "observe thanksgiving" in the sense that we do something special on the last Thursday of November.  But we celebrate food and friends and family through the lens of Hobbits and J.R.R. Tolkien...not the lens of sugarcoated American history.</blockquote>