The Real Story Of Thanksgiving

[WhiteFeather]

Is Thanksgiving All Backwards. Methinks so. And I wouldn't put it past our psychopathic historians.

Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.

The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.

But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.

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.

Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.

Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts -- where it remained on display for 24 years.

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.

This story doesn't have quite the same fuzzy feelings associated with it as the one where the Indians and Pilgrims are all sitting down together at the big feast. But we need to learn our true history so it won't ever be repeated. Next Thanksgiving, when you gather with your loved ones to Thank God for all your blessings, think about those people who only wanted to live their lives and raise their families. They, also took time out to say "thank you" to Creator for all their blessings.

http://www.manataka.org/page269.html

[WhiteFeather]

Is All That Turkey and Stuffing a Celebration of Genocide? By Laura Elliff, Vice President, Native American Student Association

Thanksgiving is a holiday where families gather to share stories, football games are watched on television and a big feast is served. It is also the time of the month when people talk about Native Americans. But does one ever wonder why we celebrate this national holiday? Why does everyone give thanks?




History is never simple. The standard history of Thanksgiving tells us that the “Pilgrims and Indians” feasted for three days, right? Most Americans believe that there was some magnificent bountiful harvest. In the Thanksgiving story, are the “Indians” even acknowledged by a tribe? No, because everyone assumes “Indians” are the same. So, who were these Indians in 1621?

In 1620, Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower naming the land Plymouth Rock. One fact that is always hidden is that the village was already named Patuxet and the Wampanoag Indians lived there for thousands of years. To many Americans, Plymouth Rock is a symbol. Sad but true many people assume, “It is the rock on which our nation began.” In 1621, Pilgrims did have a feast but it was not repeated years thereafter. So, it wasn’t the beginning of a Thanksgiving tradition nor did Pilgrims call it a Thanksgiving feast. Pilgrims perceived Indians in relation to the Devil and the only reason why they were invited to that feast was for the purpose of negotiating a treaty that would secure the lands for the Pilgrims. The reason why we have so many myths about Thanksgiving is that it is an invented tradition. It is based more on fiction than fact.

So, what truth ought to be taught? In 1637, the official Thanksgiving holiday we know today came into existence. (Some people argue it formally came into existence during the Civil War, in 1863, when President Lincoln proclaimed it, which also was the same year he had 38 Sioux hung on Christmas Eve.) William Newell, a Penobscot Indian and former chair of the anthropology department of the University of Connecticut, claims that the first Thanksgiving was not “a festive gathering of Indians and Pilgrims, but rather a celebration of the massacre of 700 Pequot men, women and children.” In 1637, the Pequot tribe of Connecticut gathered for the annual Green Corn Dance ceremony. Mercenaries of the English and Dutch attacked and surrounded the village; burning down everything and shooting whomever try to escape. The next day, Newell notes, the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony declared: “A day of Thanksgiving, thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children.” It was signed into law that, “This day forth shall be a day of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots.” Most Americans believe Thanksgiving was this wonderful dinner and harvest celebration. The truth is the “Thanksgiving dinner” was invented both to instill a false pride in Americans and to cover up the massacre.

Was Thanksgiving really a massacre of 700 “Indians”? The present Thanksgiving may be a mixture of the 1621 three-day feast and the “Thanksgiving” proclaimed after the 1637 Pequot massacre. So next time you see the annual “Pilgrim and Indian display” in a shopping window or history about other massacres of Native Americans, think of the hurt and disrespect Native Americans feel. Thanksgiving is observed as a day of sorrow rather than a celebration. This year at Thanksgiving dinner, ponder why you are giving thanks.

William Bradford, in his famous History of the Plymouth Plantation, celebrated the Pequot massacre:

“Those that scraped the fire were slaine with the sword; some hewed to peeces, others rune throw with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatchte, and very few escapted. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fyer, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stincke and sente there of, but the victory seemed a sweete sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to inclose their enemise in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enimie.”

The Pequot massacre came after the colonists, angry at the murder of an English trader suspected by the Pequots of kidnapping children, sought revenge. rather than fighting the dangerous Pequot warriors, John Mason and John Underhill led a group of colonists and Native allies to the Indian fort in Mystic, and killed the old men, women, and children who were there. Those who escaped were later hunted down. The Pequot tribe numbered 8,000 when the Pilgrims arrived, but disease had brought their numbers down to 1,500 by 1637. The Pequot “War” killed all but a handful of remaining members of the tribe.

Proud of their accomplishments, Underhill wrote a book (above) depicted the burning of the village, and even made an illustration (below) showing how they surrounded the village to kill all within it.

- John K. Wilson

Lakotah website.
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/200...ving-massacre/

[Cardillac]

@white feather

your posting cross-corroborates with all of my own read sources- but what you forgot to mention was that in the ensuing days after this hideous genocide the Pilgrims gladly kicked around the severed heads of those who they chose to decapitate; how "Christian"!-

so why were the labeled "Pilgrims" being persecuted in their own country?- it's because they had no tolerance whatsoever for anyone else's religious beliefs- any wonder why they were ostracized?- so they sailed to N. America and we to this day have to pick up after their s**t-

the origins of Halloween (which we just recently 'celebrated') are even more horrific- but we won't go there today...

be well!-

Larry

[WhiteFeather]

A harvest feast did take place in Plymouth in 1621, probably in mid-October and the Indians who attended were not even invited. It later became known as "Thanksgiving" but the Pilgrims never called it that. The pilgrim crop had failed miserably that year, but the agricultural expertise of the Pilgrims’ Indian friend Squanto had produced 20 acres of corn without which the Pilgrims would have surely perished. The Pilgrims invited Massasoit, and it was he who then invited 90 or more of his Indian brothers and sisters to the affair to the chagrin of the indignant Europeans. No turkey, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie was served, no prayers were offered and the Indians were not invited back.

The Pilgrims did, however, consume a good deal of home brew. In fact, each Pilgrim drank at least a half gallon of ale a day which they preferred even to water.

Contrary to popular mythology, the Pilgrims were no friends to the majority of local Indians. Just days before this alleged Thanksgiving communion, a company of Pilgrims led by Myles Standish actively sought the head of a local chief.

They deliberately caused a rivalry between two friendly Indians, putting one against the other in an attempt to obtain "better intelligence and make them both more diligent." An 11-foot-high wall was erected around the entire settlement for the purpose of keeping the Indians out.

Standish eventually got his bloody prize. He beheaded an Indian brave named Wituwamat and brought the head to Plymouth where it was displayed on a wooden spike for many years. Just a few years later, in about 1636, a force of colonists trapped some 700 Pequot Indian men, women, and children near the mouth of the Mystic River. English Captain John Mason attacked the Indian camp with "fire, sword, blunderbuss, and tomahawk." Only a handful escaped and few prisoners were taken, to the great delight of the Pilgrims:

To see them frying in the fire, and the streams of their blood quenching the same, and the stench was horrible; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave praise thereof to God. This event marked what was most likely the first actual Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims were pleased with the result. Any goodwill that may have existed was certainly now gone and by 1675 Massachusetts and the surrounding colonies were in a full-scale war with the great Indian chief of the Wampanoags, Metacomet.

Renamed "King Philip" by the White man, Metacomet watched the steady erosion of the lifestyle and culture of his people as European laws and values engulfed them. Forced into humiliating submission by the power of a distant king, Metacomet struck out in 1675 with raids on several isolated frontier towns. The expedient use of the so-called "Praying Indians," natives converted by the colonists to "Christianity," ultimately defeated the great Indian nation, just half a century after the arrival of the European historian Douglas Edward Leach describes the bitter end:

The ruthless executions, the cruel sentences ... were all aimed at the same goal—unchallenging white supremacy in southern New England. That the program succeeded is convincingly demonstrated by the almost complete docility of the local native ever since.

When Captain Benjamin Church tracked down and assassinated Metacomet, his body was quartered and parts were "left for the wolves." The great Indian chief’s hands were cut off and sent to Boston and his head went to Plymouth where it was set upon a pole on Thanksgiving Day, 1676. Metacomet’s nine-year-old son was destined for execution, the Puritan reasoning being that the offspring of the devil must pay for the sins of their father. He was instead shipped to the Caribbean to serve his life in slavery. In the midst of the Holocaust of the Red Man, Governor Dudley declared in 1704 a "General Thanksgiving" not to celebrate the brotherhood of man but for:

[God’s] infinite Goodness to extend His Favors ... In defeating and disappointing ... the Expeditions of the Enemy [Indians] against us, And the good Success given us against them, by delivering so many of them into our hands... Just two years later one could reap a $50 reward in Massachusetts for the scalp of an Indian.

The model of the Indian reservation system in North America had its origin in Massachusetts. A series of legislative acts "for the better regulation of the Indians" established Indian settlements throughout the state. A White overseer was appointed and white Christianity was imposed. Historian George F. Weston wrote that demand was great for ropemaker John Harrison, what with "the need for rigging for all the ships and a new rope every time an Indian was hanged." Bon Appetite!

http://daghettotymz.com/rkyvz/articl...er-mayhem.html

[WhiteFeather]

Posted by Cardillac (here)
@white feather

your posting cross-corroborates with all of my own read sources- but what you forgot to mention was that in the ensuing days after this hideous genocide the Pilgrims gladly kicked around the severed heads of those who they chose to decapitate; how "Christian"!-

so why were the labeled "Pilgrims" being persecuted in their own country?- it's because they had no tolerance whatsoever for anyone else's religious beliefs- any wonder why they were ostracized?- so they sailed to N. America and we to this day have to pick up after their s**t-

the origins of Halloween (which we just recently 'celebrated') are even more horrific- but we won't go there today...

be well!-

Larry

Yes Larry its added with regards to the kicking of heads of the Indians like soccer balls. Asquali. Hopi Tongue for Thank You.

[ZooLife]

It seems every tragedy is eventually made 'politically correct' way before that term was ever coined.

History is doomed to be repeated, at least in part, because of this habit.

[Gatita]

A local school district recently encountered problems with regard to the way AP History is taught. The district wanted to continue with the standard version. The students wanted to learn the real deal. Intelligence is not dead!

Cat

[justntime2learn]

I love everything you write WhiteFeather

I would like to ask permission to use your post in my group Pleiadians and on my Facebook page & quote you. would that be okay?

Love and Light <3

[Daozen]

I have no dog in this race, but here's W.S. Burroughs on Thanksgiving:

Lyrics to A Thanksgiving Prayer

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be s**t out through wholesome American guts.

Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,

To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.

For ******-killin' lawmen, feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the memories-- all right let's see your arms!

You always were a headache and you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

[mosquito]

That's a wonderful poem Daozen, expresses it so well. Here's a video I watched the other day "Red Cry", about the continued genocide of the Lakota people. As the beautiful grandmother says at the end - "who will stand up to the USA ?" Who indeed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VfvAqCHpXgAhttp://

Thanks Whitefeather

[spiritguide]

The Creator and Ancestors know the truth from beyond the veil. Now it is time the truth be known worldwide about all the wrongs committed against all aboriginies everywhere. Time to turn back evil upon itself. Brother WhiteFeather thanks for the reminder that all is not as it is recorded.

Peace!

Lou

[Spiral of Light]

Thank you for reminding us of these sad truths.

I live right in the middle of where these historic events took place. Wampanoag Trail and the village of Pawtuxet remain to remind us of the original inhabitants. Though the spelling has changed, the truth will always remain the same and should be spoken for all to know.

[delfine]

Thanks for keeping the true history alive, WhiteFeather.

[syrwong]

Wikipedia helps to cover up the true history. Under "thanksgiving (US)" the word massacre appears only once and with no relevance. Squanto was described as an Indian who learned English during his "travels" to England, as if he was a regular tourist.

[gardener2]

Dear Whitefeather thank you for bringing these atrocities to light that we may pray for forgiveness to your ancestors, and keep them in our heart's the devil's that committed these barbaric crimes are and have for some time now doing the same thing to mankind all around the world, their greed is unquenchable their souls as black as coal their evil knows no bounds, we are at the mercy of phycopath's. may the true creator bless you. gardener2

[WhiteFeather]

Posted by justntime2learn (here)
I love everything you write WhiteFeather

I would like to ask permission to use your post in my group Pleiadians and on my Facebook page & quote you. would that be okay?

Love and Light <3

I would be honoured. Asquali my friend.

[WhiteFeather]

Posted by gardener2 (here)
Dear Whitefeather thank you for bringing these atrocities to light that we may pray for forgiveness to your ancestors, and keep them in our heart's the devil's that committed these barbaric crimes are and have for some time now doing the same thing to mankind all around the world, their greed is unquenchable their souls as black as coal their evil knows no bounds, we are at the mercy of phycopath's. may the true creator bless you. gardener2

Yep so it seems that the white man is starting to devour its own tail hence the ouroborus effect.


And if I may add this statement. "The USA is one big reservation, and we are all in it" Russel Means An American Indian Activist

[WhiteFeather]

A Bump for Thanksgiving and to "The Native American Indian"

[EsmaEverheart]

In 1939 during the Great Depression, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day a week earlier to give Americans an extra week to do their Christmas shopping.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6198754.html

Update:
Just to add one more thing... There is no Holiday in America that is not commercialized now. And another note ... Notice the "cia" in the word "commerCIAlized?

I don't why I always notice odd things. lol@ self