whitewash: deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about (someone or something):
Sadly, but importantly, white settler colonists such as me are learning a great deal about the genocide of native peoples, in large part facilitated by the institutions of forced assimilation. Sometimes referred to as Indian boarding or residential schools, though school is a misnomer, an example of whitewashing. The remains of thousands of native children are being located on the grounds of these institutions in this country and Canada.
My friends at the Great Plains Action Society provide the following messages and resources related to Truthsgiving. The pledge to reject colonial holidays that perpetuate dangerous stereotypes and whitewashed history is included below.
The following was written by my friend Ronnie James.
Doing Truth When The World Is Upside Down
To walk a path of Doing The Truth is a battle with a very young culture. Telling the truth is comparably easy, we have our oral histories, art and traditions created and carried on, histories printed by those that found a way to the presses. We can recount the stories and lessons that survived colonialism.
But to do the truth, to live a life that enforces what we once had, a life and culture that made a millennia of humanity possible to thrive, is to be at war with what has defined and destroyed this world for too long.
We, those that conspire to live the truth, have chosen to honor our histories of cooperation. We know, with all that we have, that a world of competition and conquest is the opposite of how we gained the knowledges that propelled our abilities to create the sciences and the art and architecture of beautiful societies that our ancestors built, and we draw our strength from that to continue, to create, a world our future generations can thrive in.
It has only been a very short time that the world has been this way, which is the proof that it doesn’t have to stay this way.
Truthsgiving Webinar 2020
On November 26, Great Plains Action Society organized a webinar to educate folks about the mythology of Thanksgiving and celebrate the spirit of Truthsgivng by reporting on the many ways that one can resist colonial-capitalism and whitewashed history through the revolutionary act of mutual aid and truth-telling.
Take the Pledge
Truthsgiving, Day of Mourning, Anti-Thanksgiving Resources
“The following resources are available so that folks can learn more about Indigenous perspectives on Thanksgiving, the land they live on, how to be a good ally, and how they can decolonize their minds in order to abolish personal and institutionalized white supremacy.”
https://www.truthsgiving.org/resources
Quakers and Mutual Aid 
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