I have always asked this question and never gotten a proper answer. Thanksgiving is supposed to be a special time where we all celebrate the peaceful feast with the Native Americans. But it was all an evil plan, right after that we killed most of the Native Americans. So basically, we're celebrating that we have a strong nation who could kill people for no reason and we did!!!!!!!!!! That doesn't seem like the friendliest country to me!
2007-08-21 03:39:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
It's so THEY can remind US of "how things go", just like the 4th of july.
BUT
These days have become NATIONAL days of MOURNING for us, it strengthened us instead of hurting us. All across the country on these days we are UNITED with one thought. On these days we Pow Wow and DANCE, and SCREAM so loud the Ancestors can hear us again.
NOW those days remind THEM that they LOST, because WE are STILL HERE.
2007-08-21 12:24:42 · answer #1 · answered by Mr.TwoCrows 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving isn't about the slaughter of the Native Americans. It is supposed to celebrate people sitting down and sharing a bounty together. Yes, things went to all heck for the next few hundred years, but that's a separate issue.
Today Thanksgiving is mostly about family, not history. Many people look back on the history of our treatment of native peoples with horror and disgust, but that doesn't mean we object to sitting down to a turkey dinner with extended family. I love my family too much to punish them by boycotting a nice meal for something someone else did.
2007-08-21 05:30:54 · answer #2 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they got up from dinner and started killing Indians.
Times were different, people were different. It would never happen today. The mindset of the people who were first in this country was to conquer and take over this country as their own, since they had been basically kicked out of their homeland.
It wasn't right, but I think there were good people among our founding fathers and mothers too.
2007-08-21 03:43:47 · answer #3 · answered by Sweet n Sour 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 08:20:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traditionally most cultures have developed some type of harvest festival - to give thanks or gifts to their god or gods for providing them with a good harvest. The Thanksgiving in Plymouth is just the referred to because it was the first expression of this desire to give thanks for being them through the first yea r and providing a harvest. That sense of thanksgiving did not negate other feeling of concerns for safety etc.
2007-08-21 09:17:29 · answer #5 · answered by keezy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that is actually true, then it is a terrible thing, but will it ever change? I hope so, but in the meantime, I'll continue to love the holiday of Thanksgiving.
2007-08-21 08:29:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
we're american, and as americans, we only like to think of all the happy things we did. as children we're taught that the white people were amazingly kind to the native americans, and they were equally kind. once we get to say, high school age, we're told that our ancestors arent as great as we thought, and that they murdered innocent people because they were different, and we needed land.
its somewhat obnoxious.
2007-08-21 03:48:38 · answer #7 · answered by steph_horan1 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I guess public schools really do stink these days.
No one wanted to fight with the indians. They picked a fight with us, and since they hadn't invented anything remotely advanced....like, say, a wheel....or a suitable weapon, like a gun.....they ended up dead. Just goes to show you, when you mess with white Christians, you end regretting it! Be nice to us!
2007-08-21 03:48:31 · answer #8 · answered by Dust ~ 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hubris.
You're right, it's nothing to celebrate. Shameful.
2007-08-21 03:43:39 · answer #9 · answered by Alowishus B 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
we are americans we can do whatever we want
2007-08-21 03:47:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋