Wow, everything in that first post I already knew from going to school in the USA. Most of that stuff in that post was talked about around the table the other night with myself and my family members right here in the USA during Thanksgiving. It sucks that it all happened that way, but it happens to be one of the few times of every year where the government of the USA allows families to have the same days off of work to get together and be together. I'm glad we have Thanksgiving, otherwise we so called 'ignorant Americans' might as well just forget about all that savagery. That would be worse than Thanksgiving in my opinion.
History and fact can be incredibly nasty. One wonders who is really thankful, or what there is to be thankful for.... of course many nations have celebrations and public holidays to commemerate events of brutality and so forth. The importnat thing is, it seems, to make those events something more, a time or remembrance and reflection maybe... at least in modern times.
If anybody cares, here is Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation, in which he established the holiday and gave his reasoning for it.
Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Excerpt:
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
Re: The Real Thanksgiving Story
Originally posted by hh?
In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.
I guess it wasn't just only Americans that butchered the Native Americans. Great story hh.
Doesn't surprise me at all. I don't know if anybody cares, but I think it's kind of interesting...
Everybody knows the name "Buffalo Bill," but not many people realize where he got his name. He was one of a number of people who were hired by the US government to participate in a mass slaughter of bison. The purpose being an attempt to drive out the indians who lived in that area, who depended on the bison for pretty much everything.