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native american heritage month

The PC(USA) offers a post-Thanksgiving webinar on decolonizing and de-sanitizing the traditional narrative

Posted November 29th, 2022

The Thanksgiving narrative many Americans learned in school and celebrate each year is a destructive myth, said the Rev. Irv Porter in a webinar offered on Monday. Porter is the Associate for Native American Intercultural Congregational Support in the Presbyterian Mission Agency. The webinar was offered as a part of Native American Heritage Month, which occurs each November.

Centuries of dishonor

Posted November 24th, 2021

As we observe Native American Heritage Month, it is important to recognize that Native Americans have been on the frontlines of social reform in the United States since Europeans arrived in the 1400s.