Posted on 11/25/2014 9:01:16 AM PST by Zakeet
The modern portrayal of Thanksgiving is filled with historical inaccuracies based on a consumer culture, according to a professor at Portland State University.
Speaking at California State University at Fresno last week, Dr. Cornel Pewewardy gave a lecture to students titled “How the Grinch Stole Thanksgiving.” Pewewardy spoke about the historical and cultural implications of the holiday.
“Like other holidays, including Christmas and Columbus Day, Thanksgiving is not based on historical accuracy, but rather on the importance and prevalence of maintaining a consumer culture”, Pewewardy, who is a member of both the Comanche and Kiowa tribes, said on Tuesday.
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Ugh, white boy Freeper gottum stupid scumbag disease.He only barely smarts to use indoor toilet.
Thanksgiving
In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now remembered as American’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days.
Source: history.com
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P.S. We will also close all the casinos!
It took me longer to say the same thing on another comments page when some "Native American" whined about Whitey stealing his land.
I wrote along the lines of:
All those whining about their land being stolen should fall on their knees in thanks that it was the Americans who screwed them over, for at least they can be made to feel guilty.
The American Indians were a Stone Age culture and therefore natural patsies for any technologically advanced race that followed the what's-over-that-hill? human curiosity. In fact, look around you. Anyone other than Americans and Canadians would have kept their boot on your neck and said "We won. Deal with it."
The most distinguishing thing about humans is not our intelligence or our languages or our tool use. It is our infinite capacity for adaptability. We thrive anywhere from burning deserts to the poles.
I want you to imagine a vastly more advanced civilization lands on earth tomorrow. The humans who will do best are those that find a way to accommodate and adapt to the new reality. Those who will do least well are those that resist and reject the new reality. I see the heroism in those people but I also see the futility in their actions.
The American Indian had a choice to make. The European settler is not blameless but things could have been very different.
I don’t see how Thanksgiving would have happened without the Indians helping out the Pilgrims.
Geez, we gave you Smallpox.
” In 1863 Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed a legal holiday. “
1941
It wasn’t all friendliness and flowers in the pre-Columbus age. With 20/20 hindsight would immigrants have tried harder to keep peace between Indian tribes, maybe. But if you are being benefited in harsh survival conditions by tribe A and then they ask your help to fend off enemy tribe B, it is kind of hard to say no. Your attempts to bring peace might get both of them angry at you.
According to Wikipedia, thanksgiving became an official Federal holiday in 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens”, to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.
Credentialed and approved underlings for the socialist plutocracy don’t speak for most Indians. Like their comrades, though, they like to start fights between people other than themselves for the purpose of incrementally getting more control over all common people.
Then eventually, everyone is cheated and robbed—even the groups that egged the problems on out of some moronic racial or foreign identity obsession or compulsion.
On December 26, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the national Thanksgiving Day from the last Thursday in November to the fourth Thursday.
So the holiday we know today as Thanksgiving was done in 1941.
And Lincoln was not our President in 1863. Jefferson Davis was President ;)
IIRC, in 1941 the observance was standardized to the fourth Thursday, rather than the last Thursday as Lincoln had proclaimed it. A running joke had it that diehard Republicans refused to observe the new date & politically divided families thus celebrated two Thanksgivings.
I live 2 miles from a traditional Athabaskan Village on the upper Yukon; pretty close to all our Indians here. They always have a communal Thanksgiving Celebration at the Hall which is open to everybody. Lots of Turkey and local meat & fish, fry bread, moose head soup, on and on. Just a nice semi potlatch to give thanks to the Creator or God and get together. Indians are quite patriotic and consider themselves as American as any of us. In fact, they see all us White People as no different than the Mexicans crossing our Southern Border. The Indians are the first Americans, we all are just Johnny come lately immigrants, no joke.
Thanksgiving was made a legal holiday in 1178, under the Monarch Kilij Arslan II, in the Sultanate of Rûm.
I think this puke from PSU, (it’s funny how many PSU’ers i met in Portland were mental midgets), should go and ask forgiveness of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in Massuchusetts.
It is they that proudly proclaim their part in the establishment of the First Thanksgiving.
He must have a relative whose a professor at the school my daughter goes to.
Her class at 230 tomorrow is not canceled, is mandatory, a presentation is to be be done by her and each one of her classmates. Class gets out at 430pm. It’s supposed to snow tomorrow afternoon so(eastern MA) so my hour ride back from her school will be tripled at least
That would be at Festivus.
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