The holiday backing the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is rooted in history depicting the relationship between the English settlers who emigrated in the 1620s from England to what is now the state of Massachusetts and the Wampanoag Native Americans they encountered after arriving. Thanksgiving traces its roots back to the year 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, when the Pilgrims showed their gratitude for a successful harvest during a feast they shared with the Wampanoags, who had helped them survive the previous winter through providing them with food. Since 1621, Thanksgiving has been celebrated in what is now the United States in various capacities before becoming an official holiday in 1863. For white Americans descended from the English or otherwise European settlers who came to what became the United States, Thanksgiving is a holiday about feasting and showing gratitude, and its story began hundreds of years ago when food and friendship were served at the tables shared between the English and the Wampanoags. For the Wampanoags, other Native Americans, and all who are interested in learning the truth of America’s history, the image perpetuated by the story of Thanksgiving in Plymouth creates a dissonance when compared with the reality of what has happened to Native American people in the United States. Today, multiple Native American communities support calling Thanksgiving “Thankstaking.” In changing the second half of the world from “giving” to “taking,” the focus is shifted from the gratitude Americans are supposed to feel to conversations about the concept of “taking.” In this instance, taking is referred to the losses of life, culture, development, land, sovereignty, health, and freedom experienced by Native Americans at the hands of white Europeans for hundreds of years after 1621. Native Americans lived in peace and in health on the land in Native America for at least thousands of years, if not for as long as time itself can be counted, before Europeans arrived on it. After European arrival, Native Americans experienced mass death from infection and disease, enslavement, cultural oppression, forced assimilation into white society, forced removal from homelands, indoctrination, and overall inability to engage with various traditions, such as language and religion. In talking about this history, it becomes possible to take away parts of the invisibility capable of keeping these forms of oppression alive for so long. Exposing the real history is one form of taking the power and putting it back in the hands of Native Americans.