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Re: Happy 'Thanksgiving for Committing Genocide, Terror & TortureAgainst the Native American People, So We Can Steal Their Land' Day! |
On Nov 21, 3:36 pm, "M=F6bius Pretzel" <M0bius_Pret...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Happy 'Thanksgiving for Committing Genocide, Terror & Torture Against
the Native American People, So We Can Steal Their Land' Day!
...AmeriKKKunts never learn.
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No WMDs Yet (except in Israel & AmeriKKKa)
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Preparations Begin For The Most Important Holiday Of The Year:
American Thanksgiving
Written by tzdan
Story written: 19 November 2007
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The opressive turkey, which is killed and eaten to represent the
freedom of America.
LONDON - The fourth Thursday of November is nearly upon us and with
it
comes the most important holiday of the year: American Thanksgiving.
Preparations are beginning for American Thanksgiving, which, as its
name suggests, is the day that people across the entire globe gather
together with family and friends to feast and give thanks to the one
true Christian god for our great beacon of hope and freedom: America.
Though people from all cultures and countries celebrate the founding
of America, many do not know the true story behind the holiday of
Thanksgiving. Children will once again receive gifts of Indian and
Pilgrim action figures, but many do not know what an Indian or a
Pilgrim is.
For this reason, the The London Library has decided to have readings
of the story of the first Thanksgiving throughout the week to
reeducate celebrants.
"It's a bit of a shame that many people don't know the story of
Thanksgiving," said head librarian Gertrude Steiner. "Men will take
up
their muskets and go on the traditional turkey hunt without knowing
that the the turkey represents opression and that by killing and
eating it, we are celebrating freedom for American and for all."
According to Steiner, the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in the
newly created colony of New York, where the Pilgrims held a sumptuous
feast to celebrate their arrival in America.
The Pilgrims had recently fled religious persecution by the godless
king of England, and were thankful for their arrival in America,
where
they could be free to practise their own religious persecution of
others.
On the first Thanksgiving day, both white-skinned Pilgrims and red-
skinned Indians sat down together at the very same table, until the
Indians were chased from the table when it was learned that they were
godless heathens.
As the years passed and America grew into nationhood, the first
Thanksgiving feast was not forgotten. Soon the great holiday was
being
celebrated across the globe, as people of all colours and creeds gave
thanks for that we have the American ideal to strive for.
So this Thursday, when you gather with family and friends to
celebrate
Thanksgiving, give thanks not only to America, but to the Pilgrims
who
founded this great nation.
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A Native Person's Thanksgiving Perspective
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Written by Barry White Crow Higgins
Sunday, 18 November 2007
I have been asked here today to speak of Thanksgiving from the Native
perspective.
I am grateful for this opportunity. It is a however a difficult story
to be told as it shakes the history most of us have grown to know. It
had little to do with turkey, potatoes, or pie. Mid winter of 1620
the
Americas saw the landing of the Pilgrims in the area known today as
Plymouth MA. They were however not the first to land on these shores.
In 1614 a British expedition had already landed there. When they left
they took 24 Indians as slaves and left smallpox, syphilis and
gonorrhea behind. That plague swept the so-called "tribes of New
England", and destroyed some of the villages totally.
The new 1620 settlers were not farmers so their crop failed
miserably.
Were it not for the guidance of a Pawtuxet named Squanto they would
have surely perished. Squanto also negotiated a peace treaty with the
Wampanoag people. The next year William Bradford declared a three-day
feast after the first harvest. It would later become a part of the
myth known as Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims did not call it that nor
were
the Indians who attended the feast even invited. The invitation was
only to Squanto and Chief Massasoit. They then invited over 90
brothers and sisters to the affair much to the distaste of the
Europeans. There were no prayers and the "Indians" were never invited
back again. So contrary to popular myth the Puritans were not friends
to the Natives. For they believed they were the chosen people of the
infinite God, granting them heavenly dispensation for any actions
against a people predestined for damnation. Bradford later wrote "It
pleased God to visit these Indians with a great sickness though in
this regard God was not perfect for 50 of every thousand Indians has
survived."
By 1641 things had really begun to deteriorate and the forth coming
of
the Natives people forgotten. A 1641 massacre of the Pequot's in CT
was very successful, so much so, the churches declared a day of
"Thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the now heathen first
peoples. This was the first real use of the term of thanksgiving to
mark a day of celebration. The celebration included the decapitation
of the heads of eighty Natives, which were tossed into the streets
for
the New Settlers to kick about as a sign of power and defiance.
Also at this time the Governor Kieft of Manhattan offered the first
use of scalping as a form of bounty of 20 shillings per scalp and 40
for each prisoners they could use to sell into slavery. Permission
was
given to rape or enslave any Native women and enslave any child under
14. Law gave permission to "kill savages on sight at will". By 1675
the Native people under Metacomet fought back with vengeance. But
even
Metacomet would meet his fate at the hands of the Europeans when he
was hunted down and killed, body dismembered, hands sent to Boston,
head to Plymouth to be placed on a pole on a Thanksgiving Day in
1767.
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Early American history goes on to honor those who would contribute to
the genocide of the First Peoples of the Americas. George Washington
ordered the attacks on the six nations of the Iroquois despite the
gift of 700 bushels of corn he and his men at Valley Forge received
from the Oneida peoples. Survival of the troops was at the fate of
the
saviors themselves. Lord Jeffery Amherst the conceiver and first
American user of biological warfare with his inspired use of smallpox
infected blankets. Andrew Jackson late repeated this action with the
Seminoles. Locally (here in New England) we know the massacre at what
we now call Wissatinnewaq by Captain Turner against elders, women,
and
children. This history would repeat itself with the truth poorly
documented and rarely spoken. As recent as 1967, the State of Vermont
performed involuntary sterilization of Native females without their
permission.
5 to 6 Million Jews and Gypsies were decimated by the Nazi regime in
World War II. These facts are well remembered and the world mourns
these events. Not to minimize these events or the souls of those
victimized, these numbers pale in comparison to the events of the
Americas. It has been estimated that over 100 million Native
Americans
were killed by the European invaders during the establishment of the
nation we know today.
Thanksgiving was, without the declared name, a tradition of the
Native
Peoples a time to give thanks to the Creator for the bounty of the
harvest and their lives. As the last crops were harvested time was
taken to reflect and give thanks. Although short lived, for three
days
peace and fellowship was shared in New England back in 1621, a
gratefulness was shown for the compassion of one peoples to another
and the gifts of Grandfather and Mother Earth acknowledged and shared
unconditionally.
I do not speak these truths to solicit sympathy or the righting of
ancestral wrongs. Histories cannot be changed but truth is tool that
will give us an opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the past
and
use this knowledge to prevent them from happening again. We know
genocide is happening in many areas of the world today. We can pray
for these victim souls and by living a better example we can effect
change. I would suggest that Thanksgiving, go beyond the gratefulness
of the harvest and should be dedicated as well to all our ancestors
and give thanks for the things they have taught us with their lives
of
triumph and failure.
By awakening I pray we may learn to make a better tomorrow.
bh
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