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I apologize for the mislabeling nattyreb. I didn't even want to do a poster. But the principal and my students kept bugging. I said if we gonna do a poster we gonna do it our way. A lot of thanksgiving posters have that circle and the different color papers comping from it, to represent the turkey and it's feathers.
So we did a play on that. The circle was a sun that we made appear like it was rising from the horizon, the feathers, were in groups of threes and were red, black, and green. Above the feathers there was a header that said, "We don't celebrate or condone holidays which were founded on or promote...." and each feather had a word on it like rape, lynching, genocide, imperialism, slavery, white supremacy, racism, discrimination....., we had like 13 different words.
Beside our saying there was also a except from a Nas song that said "The Indian saved the pilgrim and return the pilgrim killed him, I call your holiday hellday.
On the bottom of the poster were pictures and facts about the interaction natives had with whites, how they gave them blankets laced with smallpox, how they had a number of massacres even after the first so called "Thanksgiving"
This was done as part of a holiday door contest. Needless to say my students and I knew we were going to get hated on, so when we didn't win the prize of a fully paid for lunch of our choice, I decided to buy all the students lunch to show my appreciation.
Odd thing is that I could only get my female students to help develop ideas, find quotes, and information, and assemble the door. I am certain I will most likely only get females again.
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