I too am a little confused about how the premeditated incarceration and murder of millions of people based solely on a few traits equates to what happened to the Native Americans.

No doubt: tribes get massacred; the Europeans embraced racist, supremacist ideals; they displaced, hurt, and destroyed countless lives and families.

But... As far as I know (and correct me if I'm wrong) there was never any widespread, universal "Kill all the Indians" mentality among the colonials. As previously stated above, it seems like there were times, indeed, when the settlers relied on and had very positive relations with the natives. Further, it seems like Thanksgiving's true spirit is in giving thanks for the good things in life, something which I (and others) had always disassociated with our checkered past with the Native Americans. For being so literal in your interpretation of Thanksgiving, you seem strangely neglectful of the non-secular aspects of Christmas. Again- I'm no scholar here, but I think it has something largely to do with "Christ."

Lousy past for the Native Americans. They got the short end of the stick. But so did the Normans and the Anglos (or was it the Saxons?) and the Hawaiians and the Fijians and every other indigenous people whose homeland was eventually sacked by foreign conquistadors. Sucks for them. But, at any other point in history, the Native Americans would've just been assimilated and forgotten.. Hardly even "tantamount to Genocide."