Ugggggggghhhhh-—wasn’t Thanksgiving feast a joyous celebration participated in by both the Pilgrims and the local Indians? But she can choose to live in kill joy dourness if that’s her thing! Have at it Angie—sour grapes for you.
I did this--because someone asked me to do a brief history of Thanksgiving for a church luncheon/meeting--and I thought it would be a simple task. But suddenly, I found myself knee-deep in articles written by "modern historians" that made the Pilgrims out to be the real "turkeys" in our history--one article even claiming that the Pilgrims were responsible for the massacre of 700 Indians.
What is sad is that this version of Thanksgiving is being taught in so many schools. Even my best friend's daughter, who is a strong Christian, "hates" Thanksgiving because of this view of history, which more than likely the Left Coast schools she attended taught her. Same kind of teaching that has tried--and for the most part succeeded in--"making mock" of the celebration of Columbus Day.
One of the best articles I found on the Google site for Thanksgiving was called "Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce." It gives a good critical and entertaining analysis of some of the "new versions" of Thanksgiving, showing the inaccuracies and biases of those "historians" who wish to use Thanksgiving as a platform to espouse their various ideological viewpoints.