While growing up, what did you learn about the first thanksgiving???

Question

In school, what story was you told about the first thanksgiving??

Answer 1

This is what they taught me:

The pilgrims game with their knowledge and goodness and taught the Indians how to be civilized. They shot turkeys and ate popcorn and everyone had a jolly old time.

This is what I've learned now:

The pilgrims came over from England, and gave the Indians various diseases and such that wiped out the majority of the tribe. They ran them off their land, shot all their wildlife, and in a few hundred years they declared themselves the sole rulers of the land and stuffed the Indians into small, cramped, unkept reservations.

Elementary school is sick and twisted how they hide history like that. Pure propoganda, it is.

Answer 2

The English were starving their heads off, so the Indians took pity on the poor twits and showed them how to plant in their kind of soil. That fall, when the harvest came in, the Indians and English all brought their goodies to eat together.

Presumably the English prayed their prayers and the Indians prayed theirs.

And then I learned how to make a turkey from a piece of colored paper by drawing my handprint on it.

Answer 3

the pilgrims came they were hungry and my ancestors helped feed them... this was the nice version, but then they ran my ancestors off... the hand that fed them, makes me sad... my Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather walked the trail of tears... and everytime I look at the photos of him I get sick with disgust about how they were forced to move just because they werent "civilised enough....


Im sorry, history just overcame me..

Answer 4

that there were more( 90) Indians them Puritans at that meal and the Indians brought all most all of the food. very much different than what we see today.

Answer 5

the turkey

Answer 6

eh i'm english lol

Answer 7

. . . that they didn't have any of that da*ned frozen cranberry sauce . . .