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Fanny ALLARD

US festival of Thanksgiving, a day of mourning for the Wampanoag people

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This Thursday marks Thanksgiving in the United States, a festival so deeply rooted in American tradition that it's more widely celebrated than Christmas. Thanksgiving commemorates the convivial sharing of a meal between the first English pilgrims to land on the shores of present-day Massachusetts in 1620 and the Wampanoag tribe, the local inhabitants. That's the story taught in school, but for the Native Americans, Thanksgiving is in fact a day of mourning. Our correspondents Fanny Allard and Fraser Jackson report.

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