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Hi friend,

As we enter this season of gratitude, I want to extend my deepest thanks to you—the readers who sustain Port of Entry not just financially, but spiritually. Your support makes it possible for me to investigate, document, and honor the stories that so often go unrecorded.

Thanksgiving sits at a complicated intersection of celebration and historical truth. Its origins stretch back to Indigenous harvest traditions that long predate the Pilgrims, but the national holiday we know today grew out of narratives that erased Native resistance, loss, and survival. For many Indigenous communities, this day is not one of feasting, but of mourning and remembrance.

As the child of immigrants, I grew up absorbing the simplified version—the one in textbooks and elementary school plays. It took years of unlearning to understand what had been left out, and that journey mirrors why the Port of Entry exists: to illuminate the histories and migrations that shape us, especially those buried beneath …