The Real Story Of Thanksgiving

[Atlas Swallowed]

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They should make a historically accurate movie about Thanksgiving and put it on the Hallmark channel.

[jambajuice]

Originally posted by Atlas [email protected] 23 2005, 11:10 PM
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They should make a historically accurate movie about Thanksgiving and put it on the Hallmark channel.
This is quite normal for humans to do. They make the history they want to remember. Understand that this is what people do and they do it naturally is a step towards really understanding human nature.

[Martin Blank]

If they are to make something historically accurate, they shouldn't base it on what the author of that article says. For example:


The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day he ordered troops to march against the starving Sioux in Minnesota.

First, she is right to imply that it was common for the colonial government to call for days of thanksgiving after each time they slaughtered a Native nation. However, Washington's call for a national day of thanksgiving was related to the victory of the Revolutionary War, not the slaughter of Native Americans.

Second, Lincoln issued a total of six proclamations of thanksgiving during the Civil War, the first one in late summer 1862 and the last just days before his assassination. Now, yes, it is true that he issued one proclamation on the same day as Gen. Pope's soldiers descended on the Sioux in Minnesota, but the proclamation itself was in response to the victory in the battles of the Seven Days (and it is not true that it was issued on the same day as the order was given to Pope -- I have Lincoln's collected writings, including his telegrams and orders during the Civil War).

The author of this article says that she wants people to approach Thanksgiving with an understanding of historical accuracy. It might help her case if she did so herself.

Miles

[Master Che]

It sicken's me that people even celebrate it. Its like celebrating Hitlers holocaust, i hate thanksgiving. I hate it even more how Americans potray it as something good.

[Janus]

I agree, I see Thanksgiving as a celebration of the beginning of the oppression of the Native Americans. It sickens me when Americans celebrate it as a day of friendship and peace. Yes, we should be thankful for the food that was harvested on stolen ground and for the homes built on stolen property. Everywhere, you see the traces of ignorance on the part of Americans and the exploitation and oppression of Native Americans that all began on that fateful day.