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No thanks: Native Americans to hold 50th gathering of grief

That's the in-your-feast message Native Americans are preparing to send as they convene their 50th annual National Day of Mourning in the seaside town where the Pilgrims settled.

United American Indians of New England has held the solemn remembrance on every Thanksgiving Day since 1970 to recall what organizers describe as "the genocide of millions of native people, the theft of native lands and the relentless assault on native culture."

But Thursday's gathering will have particular resonance — and, indigenous people say, a fresh sense of urgency.

Plymouth is putting the final touches on next year's 400th anniversary commemorations of the Pilgrims' landing in 1620.