Posted on 11/23/2005 3:05:11 PM PST by SJackson
With all the problems with illegals from Mexico,
And now you want to tell us Thanksgiving is a Hispanic Holiday?
Thanks, thanks alot.
I was always taught that Jamestown was the first European settlement.
Then I went to New Mexico, and found out that the Conquistadors (and their priests) had settlements in northern New Mexico long before Jamestown.
Texan, most of the claimed celebrations were in the spring anyway.
BUMP!
Sorry, it's just that when I think of El Paso, I don't think of Texans. Never been there, but close enough to be told not to go there.
The first North American Thanksgiving was celebrated around 995 AD on Prince Edward Island, Between the "North Men"(Norse) , The Vikings ( Eric Thorvaldson) and the Indigenous peoples (Algonkin), as a harvest celebration with Turkey, fish, veggies, bread, and corn.
Perhaps, though I could cite a number of sources, not the best I admit, that those indigenous peoples were in fact Muslim.
Ok, Now I really AM confused.
The first English thanksgiving was in VIRGINIA (like every other good thing in the world). And it is the first English t-giving that counts, or else we could count dozens (thousands???) of Indian t-givings, for they were, of course, constantly giving thanks via feast, sacrifice, prayer, etc. for 1,000s of years before Europeans arrived. And, yes, the 1st PERMANENT ENGLISH settlement in the new world was in Jamestown, VA.
Thank you! I am so sick and tired of all these people wanting to rewrite history. Personally the Pilgrim Thanksgiving means a lot more to my family.
Some dinner in the El Paso area from some group of Spaniards means zero, zip, nada. Let the Mexicans celebrate that Thanksgiving. Our family will continue to celebrate the Thanksgiving dating to the Pilgrims.
Thanx for making that point clear....people are too into multi-culti balkanized USA to think straight anymore.
It's not Thanksgiving until thanks are given.
Thanking God for all his blessings.
It's kind of pathetic that these various groups have such low self esteem that they must claim credit for this. Have their respective cultures contributed so little that this is necessary?
The Pilgrim Thanksgiving was, at best, the 4th or 5th such event recorded.
A Thanksgiving feast seems to have been quite a logical thing for European people from every country to hold. My own research suggests that one individual who attended the St. Sauveur celebration also attended the Jamestown event, and later the Plymouth Plantation event.
He was an agent for a land sales company owned by King James and his associates.
995 A.D. is before Mohamed and the cult of Islam, IIRC.
No, I think Mohhamad was around in...oh 700-ish AD?
Feliz el Dia del Guajolote!
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