Articles written by Petula Dvorak

Petula Dvorak, Washington Post|Nov 29, 2013

Dennis Zotigh, a cultural specialist at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, won't be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday the way most of us are going to. Neither will lots of other Native Americans. Surprised? Then you're way too close to the papier mache, elementary school version of the Thanksgiving feast, presented as a Disneyesque love fest between the Pilgrims and the Indians. Many American Indians don't see it that way at all. "It makes me really mad - the Thanksgiving myth and what happens on Friday," said Zotigh,...