2007-11-15 10:57:19 · 4 answers · asked by naruto uzamaki 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
The Indians helped the Pilgrims a lot when they first came over to America, its a holiday in which you give thanks for what you have, or what you may take advantage of.
2007-11-15 11:02:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a formal proclamation, passed by an Act of Congress, initiating the first annual National Day of Thanksgiving:
"No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy...
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and those who are sojourning in the foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens....[it is] announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blesses whose God is the Lord....It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledge, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people."
-America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations
2007-11-15 15:23:25 · answer #2 · answered by Tiffany M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, the indians help the americans to survive the winter and after that the americans killed most of the indians pretty f**ked up
2007-11-15 12:50:36 · answer #3 · answered by Goblin: D.M.A. 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Football is why.
http://encarta.msn.com/column_thanksgivingmyths/The_Pilgrims_watched_football_(and_other_Thanksgiving_myths).html?GT1=5809
2007-11-15 11:06:53 · answer #4 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋