Indigenous Americans standing on shore watching the first European ships arriving must have had an ominous sense of foreboding. They should have built the damn wall!
And as for that first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims did not intend to invite the Indigenous Americans who had saved their sorry asses that first harsh, Massachusetts winter. They wanted a feat to thank god, who did NOTHING to save them and, in fact, allowed most of those who left England on their ship to die.
The Wampanoag tribe members saw them out hunting with their pathetic lack of skills, and invited themselves to the feat. Shocked at how little the Pilgrims had, the Wampanoag brought a bounteous feast. The Pilgrims would soon betray them with the first rounds of genocide.
Many surviving Wampanoag descendants today remember Thanksgiving the way the Jews remember the Holocaust (Shoah).
Everyone in 1492 was living in harmony with nature, if you don’t count camp fires. Native Americans didn’t have the technology to do anything else, and neither did anyone else on earth at that time. Ignorance is not a virtue, and those possessing it should not be credited with moral superiority. Destroying the ecosystem with our technology has been largely committed by the educated, but it’s human nature to dump waste into the stream because it’s easy for you, solves your problem, and if it has disappeared from your life, it no longer is of concern.
According to modern researchers the decimation of the native population of the Americas was due to exposure of Old World diseases that they had zero immunity to. In fact without this plague they probably would have wiped out any incoming settlers, but instead said settlers found many abandoned villages when they arrived. This same thing was seen during the Black Death that ravaged Europe and came for Asia. Mankind will always experience these things and mankind will always invade and take what they want from weaker civilizations. Read your history and ensure you read both sides it can be very interesting and enlightening. Forget the old fairy-tales they taught you in grade school about Thanksgiving.
Today Latin activists are just using the Thanksgiving fairy-tale to promote their agendas. When actually their ancestors were as guilty of invasion and conquering the natives as the Anglos were. This of course assumes they are NOT 100% native American.
Dirty Dragon about 6 years ago
The original caravan was an armada.
Templo S.U.D. about 6 years ago
just how many were onboard the “Mayflower” again?
DD Wiz about 6 years ago
Indigenous Americans standing on shore watching the first European ships arriving must have had an ominous sense of foreboding. They should have built the damn wall!
And as for that first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims did not intend to invite the Indigenous Americans who had saved their sorry asses that first harsh, Massachusetts winter. They wanted a feat to thank god, who did NOTHING to save them and, in fact, allowed most of those who left England on their ship to die.
The Wampanoag tribe members saw them out hunting with their pathetic lack of skills, and invited themselves to the feat. Shocked at how little the Pilgrims had, the Wampanoag brought a bounteous feast. The Pilgrims would soon betray them with the first rounds of genocide.
Many surviving Wampanoag descendants today remember Thanksgiving the way the Jews remember the Holocaust (Shoah).
casonia2 about 6 years ago
I recommend the book 1491.
Diane Lee Premium Member about 6 years ago
Everyone in 1492 was living in harmony with nature, if you don’t count camp fires. Native Americans didn’t have the technology to do anything else, and neither did anyone else on earth at that time. Ignorance is not a virtue, and those possessing it should not be credited with moral superiority. Destroying the ecosystem with our technology has been largely committed by the educated, but it’s human nature to dump waste into the stream because it’s easy for you, solves your problem, and if it has disappeared from your life, it no longer is of concern.
Kubby56 about 6 years ago
You sound university educated !
BeniHanna6 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
According to modern researchers the decimation of the native population of the Americas was due to exposure of Old World diseases that they had zero immunity to. In fact without this plague they probably would have wiped out any incoming settlers, but instead said settlers found many abandoned villages when they arrived. This same thing was seen during the Black Death that ravaged Europe and came for Asia. Mankind will always experience these things and mankind will always invade and take what they want from weaker civilizations. Read your history and ensure you read both sides it can be very interesting and enlightening. Forget the old fairy-tales they taught you in grade school about Thanksgiving.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Today Latin activists are just using the Thanksgiving fairy-tale to promote their agendas. When actually their ancestors were as guilty of invasion and conquering the natives as the Anglos were. This of course assumes they are NOT 100% native American.