The History of Thanksgiving

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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[AnneD]

1. Only in America....

do we celebrate genocide by having a gluttonous feast. I think the Indians of Cecily Alaska had it right by lobbing tomatoes at the Anglos.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYL5IqrSaVk

[Bucky]

2. I don't think it's "only in America" that genocide took place

Most of the world's civilizations are built on the graves of less aggressive societies--and that includes the neolithic American Indians' violent displacement of the mesolithic homonids they found in the Americas upon their arrival. Let's please not pretend that the sins of the English settlers of North America, however deplorable, were unique in history.

[winyanstaz]

4. Please post some sort of proof and let us Native Americans know...

exactly where you got this information and the proof of it.
ALL Native American tribes keep oral histories of their ancestors and their movements.
Almost all the Native American tribes also have a history that starts out that the people did not war with each other until not long before the white man came..and then it was territorial wars because the Sacred Hoop was broken.
Even in territorial wars, women and little kids were not killed. They were stolen and integrated into the winning tribe.
Real Warriors did not make war on kids, women and the elderly. That was considered cowardly. That only started later on after the Sacred Hoop was broken.
Before that they had the Sacred Hoop...wherein ALL the races and tribes had their place and came to gather in peace. (much like the garden of Eden stories of the White man)
Please give us the proof that we were murdering and wiping out whole tribes before the europeans came here or apologize.

[AnneD]

5. I think it was raised to new levels....

of atrocities by the English.

[winyanstaz]

3. very well done...K & R