It's in history.
2006-06-28 02:00:45 · 16 answers · asked by phynx 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Thanksgiving is about being thankful for the blessings, the good things, that we have in our life. We may remember the first Thanksgiving, when settler and native Americans gathered to celebrate success in being able to achieve the ability to survive without starving to death and celebrated together since the groups had worked together, the native Americans having taught the settlers how to subsist here.
At modern Thanksgivings, people talk about and thank God for the things that are important to them--their families, the ability to have a meal on the table and people they love to share it with in a country where they are able to believe as they choose to.
It's my favorite holiday of the year. It's about saying "Thank you" and not "Give me".
2006-06-28 02:07:07 · answer #1 · answered by LC 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every one should be thankful for what they have, and the native Americans sat down with the settlers for the first Thanksgiving Dinner. We don't celebrate victory over the native Americans, we are simply thankful for the blessings we have. I know that the native Americans were done wrong, and so were a lot of other groups being conquered by others. Its the past and those responsible are dead.
2006-06-28 02:17:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first Thanksgiving celebration (and those since) have absolutely nothing to do with the treatment of native Americans. It is the ONLY holiday we celebrate in America that has no origin in pagan history. It was (and still is) a day set aside to thank God for his love and grace....and that has nothing to do with man's abuse of mankind. We're not thanking 'man'...but rather the Creator of 'man.' (and when I say 'holiday', I'm not including MLK day or President's Day)
2006-06-28 02:14:17 · answer #3 · answered by Christi B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just wanted to reply to mace. Apparently you are one that believes in blindly following our leaders and not questioning their actions. If at the founding of this great land of ours questions weren't asked, authority challenged, we wouldn't be the nation that we are today. But that's one of the great things about this country, boneheads like you being able to voice their opinions without fear of retribution.
And Thanksgiving isn’t a celebration of blood and conquering, it is a celebration of the good earth and the bounty of the land.
2006-06-28 02:08:43 · answer #4 · answered by jm a 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well i am native american indian they celebrate because of the giving ans what they took they could not say lets celabrate the indians so will diguise it as somthing els
like i say get off my land so i can put up my teepee lol
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2006-06-28 02:09:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um... Blood and death... that's too bad. It happens. I don't celebrate 'blood and death', all I know and want to know is that everyone in my family cooks some damn good food and we get together to stuff our faces and enjoy each other's company. And drink.
2006-06-28 02:05:50 · answer #6 · answered by Robert B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
At the time it started we all sat down together and celebrated living another year.
2006-06-28 02:03:08 · answer #7 · answered by AlphaFemale 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably the same reason that Christopher Columbus got a national holiday for "discovering " America
2006-06-28 02:05:13 · answer #8 · answered by Suzi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Americans have done a pretty amazing job of forgetting how the Americas were colonized.
2006-06-28 02:02:34 · answer #9 · answered by Kyle 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why not; it's another chance for people to sit down with annoying relatives and stuff themselves until they can't move. Woo-Hoo, sounds fun, apparently. . .
2006-06-28 02:05:28 · answer #10 · answered by Slash 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋