2007-03-19 08:28:19 · 9 answers · asked by MR.MOODY 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
well, native Indians view this day as a DAY OF MOURNING. the first time the puritans mention the word thanks given is when they had killed some Indians. they said let us give thanks to god for this.
2007-03-23 04:07:36 · answer #1 · answered by chin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You keep coming out with some interesting questions...
to take it back, be mindful that the individuals (pilgrams, if you will...they were on a pilgrimage) were leaving to settle in the "new world" largely due to the ability to experience freedom in their spirituality, not to be under the politics of religion...there is a difference. Anyway, Thanksgiving has been a day that was to be celebrated (under Washington thru Lincoln's presidency), after the Revolutionary and Civil wars, as a day America gave thanks to God for blessing us...and we've taught our children in school that the pilgrams were giving thanks to the Indians for helping them, when it was actually a day, originally, when both the Indians and the Pilgrams came together to give thanks unto God. The Indians played their part in teaching the ways of the lands to the Pilgrams, the Pilgrams brought the knowledge of an existing God to the Indians... two separate cultures and people had to coexist and work together since both were experiencing extreme hardships...and so on and so forth. But be mindful, where ever there is good, evil is there too.
I hope this answers your question. Don't boycott the turkey day. It was NOT originally a day where we celebrated the very ones we (as a young country) later brutalized (my ancestors included...Apaches & Choctaws!), but came together to celebrate God and the life saving miracles that were witnessed and the gospel that was taught.
2007-03-19 16:38:57 · answer #2 · answered by SouthernMom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shameful killing of Indians came later. Thanksgiving was to celebrate the fact that God had brought them through a year alive, and that now they had a harvest to last them through the following winter, and all that thanks to help from the local Indians.
Later on, the whites showed their "gratitude" by thaking the Indians' land and progressively killing them off.
2007-03-19 15:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is not the celebration of Indian murders; although, indians were murdered as a result of the white man's settlements.
2007-03-19 15:33:36 · answer #4 · answered by marie2dessy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is just that. A time to give thanks to God for all our blessings, our families, and the good that is in our lives. It is also a harvest celebration and also considered by many to be the official start of the holiday (Christmas, Hanukkah) season of good will, and charity toward others. This is what Thanksgiving is in modern times.
2007-03-19 23:35:29 · answer #5 · answered by teacupn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the pre-Plymouth Rock killings were largley unintentional, due to diseases that killed about 90 percent of the Indians, although the settlers took full advantage (even calling the plague a gift from god. See? the crowd who thinks AIDS is god's tool have a long and moronic history) of the depopulated lands, and grave-robbed wherever they could.
The deliberate killings started afterward.
2007-03-19 15:40:14 · answer #6 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people do not veiw thanksgoiving as they day thousands of indians was killed but as a day to thank the people that mean the most to you and as a day to have a feast like the pilgrims and indians did
2007-03-22 09:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we like to eat!!! And if we can get other people to come over with food and desert, were incredibly happy.
There, simple, and almost true.
2007-03-20 18:02:00 · answer #8 · answered by addybme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i didnt knew that.I m from india.U may b talking abt american Indians
2007-03-19 15:32:14 · answer #9 · answered by age_of_brains 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋