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Hey, girl. I'm part Indian and I don't celebrate a day that celebrates the
military defeat, killing, and enslavement of Massachusetts area Indians. They can say all they want with their whitewashed history, but Thanksgiving is a celebration of the end of King Philip's War. Chief of the Wampanoag, Philip, son of Pilgrim befriender Massasoit, after being forced from his lands and seeing his brother killed, fought a year-long war until he was shot through the heart. His head was severed from his body and mounted on a pike and placed outside Fort Plymouth (remaining there twenty years). His wife and 8-year-old son were sold as slaves. There's your Thanksgiving, so Hallelujah! and pass the cranberry sauce...
All that aside, I don't begrudge anyone else celebrating Thanksgiving, Mademoiselle. Most people continue in blitheful ignorance of why we celebrate anything in this country...
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saul_relative
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October 12, 2006
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America was only discovered 514 years ago?
Wow ... seems a lot longer.
Do Indians Native Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving, btw? I always wondered that. If they do, I bet they probably call it something different.
"One foot in the grave."
posted by
Mademoiselle
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October 12, 2006
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