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Thanksgiving, then, is not the best symbol for America’s dark history of colonialism and dispossession – much less apt than, say, the now-obscure Landing Day or Forefathers Day, which male New England societies celebrated in the 19th century to mark their ancestors’ landing on Plymouth Rock in December 1620, or Columbus Day, which hailed a hero more easily construed as a conquistador.

Thanksgiving, then, is not the best symbol for America's dark history of colonialism and dispossession – much less apt than, say, the now-obscure Landing Day or Forefathers Day, which male New England societies celebrated in the 19th century to mark their ancestors' landing on Plymouth Rock in December 1620, or Columbus Day, which hailed a hero more easily construed as a conquistador.

Plymouth Rock, however, was at first more directly tied to a different occasion: Forefathers’ Day, or Landing Day, on December 22, commemorating the debarkation of the Mayflower passengers in 1620.

He delivered the first anniversary address of that association on the 22 of December or Forefathers' Day, in 1770.

Hurry, scurry to dress for the Forefathers' Day celebration.