Posted on 11/21/2018 6:47:38 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
Yeah, but acquired expertise with the horses is what transformed the Comanchee from a sad, isolated Wyoming tribe on the brink of starvation to the most powerful tribe in America stretching from what is now northern Mexico and most of what is now Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico by 1800. It is why Santa Ana invited Americans to move into Texas in 1820 to serve as something of a buffer zone between the Comanchee and newly independent Mexico.
Better teach about Squanto... Who just happened along when the pilgrims were starving and he spoke English because he spent a significant amount of time in England at a monastery. How is that for divine intervention?
Now... I also have to assert that the pilgrims were lousy hunters. They were clumsy in the woods, they were half-starved, the weapons that they were using were slow to load, slow to Fire, and slow to reload, and most game was fleeting and quick and got out of the way before the Pilgrims had any chance to harvest meat. So based on that fact, and the region that they were living during that first Thanksgiving it is very doubtful that they ate venison, they might have hhada bit turkey or perhaps the local native population got some game but... There is a strong theory that the the pilgrims ate cod fish, perhaps Lobster because it was easily obtainable and the bay was full of marine life. So unless you’re eating Cod for Thanksgiving you are not, in all probability, having a traditional Pilgrim dinner... And that includes maise and of course squash, gourds, pumpkin, and cowpers.
True, the horse transformed many tribes into a force that could travel the vast open spaces of the American west.
But the modern horse is not native to the Americas.
And no turkey for her!
And, Jamestown, VA.
Poof it was gone and the Injuns just stood around and said, “I dindu nuffin.”
I was even earlier - elementary school in the 50’s!!!! (Yes, I am that old).
A GREAT era for schools back then.
We had great Thanksgiving plays but even back then they cut out Christmas plays - too religious. Those Christmas plays were for church.
But I didn’t learn about all the history of the country until after I got out of school and started reading great nonfiction works of history. My appreciation for this country GREW - did not diminish at all.
But I did get a “classical” education in schools back then:
Algebra, geometry, civics, world civ, Latin, etc. We were prepared for “the world” of college. Then I went to a small two year college (Peace College in Raleigh) where I had some fantastic professors. After that I transferred to UNC Chapel Hill and got a nonesensical degree in early childhood education so I could teach elementary school.
When I taught fourth grade, we had some fantastic studies in American history going back and doing “a day in the life” of a Colonial childhood,etc. We dressed in Colonial era costumes. My students told me these were some of the best times of their fourth grade teaching.
I also read aloud the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis and did not get kicked out of my teaching job as I would today. I am sure that book is on the forbidden list.
Mark
Sounds good to me.
From an archeological perspective the pre-horse western tribes live a pretty sorry hand-to-mouth existence.
Good book to read on the Comanche - Empire of the Summer Moon!
OK, who at the whore start of the video? Is THAT the teacher??
I have heard that some public schools teach that the Pilgrims had Thanksgiving to thank the Indians. Do they really teach that?
Lately, some have been calling Thanksgiving a secular holiday. How is giving thanks to God secular?
Do they think that, when Washington and Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, they were merely declaring that everyone should have a big dinner?
*who is..
THe man at the start of the video is Tim Pulliam, the reporter for WTVD 11 news.
The two women are parents of students in WCPSS.
Not sure who else to whom you are referring.
Don't know. Jamestown celebrated a 'thanksgiving feast' in 1619...before those Puritans even booked passage. Can't claim any family connection...my folks didn't arrive in VA until the 1650's and by then Williamsburg was the really happening place.
Yep. All the northerners are moving to this county with their NY attitudes and values.
I don’t know what the schools now teach students about Thanksgiving...but according to this Director of Diversity they won’t be teaching anything positive about the relationship of the Indians to the “white” men (and women) of that era.
She doesn’t have to celebrate Thanksgiving....it is a free country.
As long as she doesn’t scream “Death to America”, it does not matter.
Great book. I read it. We have a Navajo family friend who liked the book so well, we gave it to her. We learned from her that the Apache were merely a branch of the Navajo family who were slow to take up sheep ranching.
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