Thanksgiving is a time known for bringing together families, for large meals and socializing, for watching football games and parades, and of course for expressing gratitude.
However, Thanksgiving can also be a time of controversy, and not only when gatherings involve having relatives of different political and religious views together for hours on end.
Be it efforts to change when the annual observance is held, different perspectives on its significance, or even deciding who had the first one, Thanksgiving can be a source of much headline-grabbing debate.
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Some of these issues have been resolved with time, while others continue to crop up every November when people think about the federal holiday and its broader meaning.
Here are seven controversies surrounding Thanksgiving.
