Are you gonna invite any Native Americans to your Thanksgiving dinner?
(If you have NA in your genes...that counts)
2007-11-20 16:08:45 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tigerlily, I have NA in my family....so that counts...so yeah...all of my aunts and uncles are coming!!! well...not all.
2007-11-20 16:18:33 · update #1
*screams* yay! other Cherokee!!!
2007-11-20 16:19:28 · update #2
Why not?
2007-11-20 16:11:17 · answer #1 · answered by doglover 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My great grandfather was full blooded Cherokee, so there's a fair amount of Native American blood in my family. However, I don't celebrate Turkey Massacre Day. I will be hiding in my room when everybody else is here.
2007-11-22 01:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by Becca 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we ARE native american and we do not celebrate Thanksgiving. It is one of the darkest days in native american history.
ORIGINS OF THANKSGIVING
The year was 1637.....700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe, gathered for their "Annual Green Corn Dance" in the area that is now known as Groton, Conn.
While they were gathered in this place of meeting, they were surrounded and attacked by mercernaries of the English and Dutch. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth, they were shot down. The rest were burned alive in the building.
The next day, the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared : "A day of Thanksgiving, thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children.
For the next 100 years, every "Thanksgiving Day" ordained by a Governor or President was to honor that victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.
Newell based his research on studies of Holland Documents and the 13 volume Colonial Documentary History, both thick sets of letters and reports from colonial officials to their superiors and the king in England, and the private papers of Sir William Johnson, British Indian agent for the New York colony for 30 years in the mid-1600s.
"My research is authentic because it is documentary," Newell said. "You can't get anything more accurate than that because it is first hand. It is not hearsay."
Newell said the next 100 Thanksgivings commemorated the killing of the Indians at what is now Groton, Connecticut [home of a nuclear submarine base] rather than a celebration with them. He said the image of Indians and Pilgrims sitting around a large table to celebrate Thanksgiving Day was "fictitious" although Indians did share food with the first settlers.
Source: Documents of Holland, 13 Volume Colonial Documentary. History, letters and reports from colonial officials to their superiors and the King in England and the private papers of Sir William Johnson, Britsh Indian agent for the New York colony for 30 years.
Researched by William B. Newell (Penobscot Tribe) Former Chairman of the University of Connecticut Anthropology Department.
2007-11-21 00:30:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would, but the ones I would invite would not come without the REST of thier families, which would sort of defeat the purpose since I sort of want to be around them WITHOUT those other relatives. BTW1/8 Cherokee so....
2007-11-21 00:28:26 · answer #4 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to be married to a wonderful Native American man (Ojibwa). We only held Thanksgiving as a form of family get-together as everyone had off from work.
We also had to go to dinner at his adoptive parents home.....oh, well, it was a good meal anyway.
2007-11-21 00:34:34 · answer #5 · answered by Nepetarias 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just my wife and daughters. But I really don't think of them as Native Americans, since everyone I know is a native American. Just because my wife is part Indian (Navajo) doesn not make her any more a native of America than any other native-born American. Did you know that only native Americans can be elected President? Yep, gotta be born here. Poor Arnold Schwarzeneggar. Non-native, no presidency for him.
2007-11-21 00:19:55 · answer #6 · answered by Arnon 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If I knew any I would. But I'm going to my sister's house for Thanksgiving, so I'll have to ask her. I'm sure she would say yes, too.
I have no Native American blood. European only - English, Irish & Norwegian.
2007-11-21 00:21:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am part Lakota, and my wife is part Cherokee.
Our family heritage also includes: English, French, Irish, Scotch, German, Hungarian, African, Mexican, Austrian, Norweigan, and Swedish.
We almost have a mini U.N. meeting at every family reunion.
2007-11-21 00:27:42 · answer #8 · answered by Barry F 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I invited more than one to come and perform music and storytelling at the church where I direct music, as I have in the past -- but none of them could come this year. Waaah!
For dinner, though, I guess I'm going to have to be the one representing my Mic-mac and Abenaki ancestors.
2007-11-21 00:13:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The proportion of genes is a bit uneven compared to history, but it still includes both sides...
2007-11-21 00:15:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes on both. I have indian in me and I hae invited my friend who is a full blood native american and her feller.
2007-11-21 00:21:10 · answer #11 · answered by nightshadetn 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋