The cornmeal that has become a staple of the holiday table reflects millenniums of work by Native Americans — a legacy that Indigenous people are trying to keep alive.
Native Americans have high hopes that Deb Haaland, nominated by president-elect Joe Biden to become the first Native American cabinet secretary, could help reset the fraught relationship between the U.S. government and Indigenous peoples.
The ‘Thanksgiving Tribe’ that shared their harvest with the Pilgrims in 1620 sits at the center of a legal battle with the U.S. government to maintain access to their traditional lands and foodways.
