Thanksgiving (especially in America) tends to be a day of celebrating the European Settlers arrival in North America...
as first Nations people, who, let's be realistic, got seriously taken advantage of and down right slaughtered and abused, WHY would you celebrate this holiday?
If you celebrate it as a Harvest Festival... do you celebrate it on the statuatory day? Again, why?
2006-10-10 02:09:11 · 10 answers · asked by Apple A 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
For those who are acting as though I put up a hate question...
I'm not.
I'm not Native.
I just want to know how people can celebrate a holiday which essentailly represents the fall of their society.
I'm confused by this phenomenon and want real answers.
2006-10-10 03:46:11 · update #1
My family and I celebrate it, we do the usual big dinner but we don't celebrate the settlers arrival in No America. Instead, every year, before we eat, we all sit down and each go around and speak of what we each are truely grateful and blessed for. Its a good way to remind us of what we do have and how lucky we are. It makes us enjoy everything so much more. I am 27 yrs old and can't remember a Thanksgiving where we didn't do that.
2006-10-10 03:11:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anne Marie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I celebrate Thanksgiving. But not the way I used to with my Mom. Back in that day, when I was much younger, and education kept real history to a bare minimum, I celebrated TG with a big ole turkey and family.
I do the same with my children, mostly because it is a day of thanks, and I want my children to remember that, but being 1/4 American Indian, I also remind my children why we are here and how we came to be.
Other than that, judging people for celebrating a holiday does not make you any better. Spread the word about what happened, but don't condone those for following age-old tradition.
2006-10-10 02:19:06 · answer #2 · answered by rouschkateer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your premise is wrong. The first Thanksgiving was a celebration of the first harvest and also the fact that so many of the Pilgrims even survived the first year. They survived a horrible winter largely with the help of the local native people and the locals survived with the help of the Pilgrims. They invited the local native people to celebrate with them.
Despite what some history books say, thanks was given to God.
The feast was not given as a way of thanking the local native people.
Maybe you would be happy to go and celebrate with Russell Means and the rest of his hate group.
and will somebody please ask LONDON OVAL when Canada quit celebrating Thanksgiving?
2006-10-10 02:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the US it has nothing to do with the arrival of the Pilgrims, you show your ignorance. It is only a harvest holiday- the Pilgrins determined they had enough food to make it through the winter and had a feast to celebrate (along with the local native people, who helped them). Before you show your ignorance in posting such a question, you should first learn the facts. Its a great holiday, to be spent with family, enjoying the bounty that God has given us. We use the holiday to celebrate our thanksfulness for that continuing bounty.
2006-10-10 02:19:06 · answer #4 · answered by bmwdriver11 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims AND their Native American friends. It was a day set aside to thank God for his blessings and watchful care. It is not an either/or thing. We should all be thankful to God no matter what our ancestry. You should work more on building bridges instead of driving wedges.
2006-10-10 02:17:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
So dude!
I hate to burst your bubble but its only America that celebrates Thanksgiving and as I understand it its about arriving safely in the "New World"!
2006-10-10 02:19:42 · answer #6 · answered by london.oval 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually being both Iroquois and Euro-American, I celebrate Thanksgiving as a day of thanks for everything we have. I also remember the first thanksgiving as a celebration of two peoples, one that assisted another, and one that survived extreme hardship thanks to the kindness of local people.
2006-10-10 02:18:11 · answer #7 · answered by F T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks. In history, the Pilgrams and the Indians had a huge feast together and since then it's been known as Thanksgiving. I think that everyday should be a day to give thanks. Thanksgiving is a day to have family get together, to have fun as a family.
2006-10-10 02:21:20 · answer #8 · answered by Moon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, as a harvest day, Yes, as a day of patriotism because the past is the past and the dead must bury the dead, Yes, to celebrate our families and remember those who have gone on before us, Yes, most of all, to thank God, Almighty for all that he has given to all of us in the world - not just in the U.S.
2006-10-10 02:13:39 · answer #9 · answered by Donald W 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
duh because we are americans
2006-10-10 13:44:13 · answer #10 · answered by jayleen94541 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋