I see nothing wrong with children dressing up in pilgram and native american dress. This will help to teach them how Thanksgiving got started and what the meaning of it is. I feel the US population has gone way over board on concerns about impacts to various groups and we are moving very rapidly away from what this country has stood for.

I have always felt that dressing as an ethnic group is wrong. Most costumes are caricatures anyway.

As a Native American teacher in a public school system, this is the exact disregard for history that we are trying to over come. It is not that we don't believe in a day for giving thanks, or to take time and connect with our families, it is that the whole idea of Indians helping the pilgrims and the pilgrims being so thankful for their help is a lie. We are just asking that everyone take a true look into the history of this day of "thanks" and see it for what it is. A day where the "pilgrims" celebrated the killings of tens of thousands of Pequat Indians. To continueously perpetuate the myth of thanksgiving is what disturbs Native Americans along with little non-native children putting on head dresses. Does anyone know what the "head dress" means? I didn't think so. Would you celebrate a national holiday and dress up as slaves, or put black face on?

my child's school is having a thanksgiving play and are going to say praise the lord. i think the play should represent both the indians and the pilgrims more fairly. does anyone know who the indians would have prayed to? i think if they are going to say praise the lord they should also nclude an indian praise.onniedax@aol.com