Happy Thanksgiving America
As you welcome your family and visit Wal-mart to get the last forgotten items for your Thanksgiving meal, Happy Thanksgiving dear friends.
On this day several hundred years ago, in 1620 to be exact, God blew upon the crisp, white sails of the Mayflower and ordered the first true proto-Americans to set foot in their new country; America.
The land was beautiful, yet savage and untamed. In its overgrown forests and grasses crawled buffalo, grizzly bears, Indians and mountain lions! Uncut and savage!
This was all about to change. The first Pilgrim set his foot upon Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. The Pilgrims, who numbered 102, quickly established a civilized village, as the winter was very cold and harsh.
After that first tough winter, the Pilgrims established the strong American agricultural market that we still enjoy today. They prayed to God for good rains and Sun and grew all sorts of crops — old and new they found in the wild — in bounty; corn, squash, pumpkins, wheat, cow peas, potatoes, and a bit of everything else.
As the new winter approached in November of 1621, the colony of Plymouth was already having a Golden age. Everyone was making merry and enjoying the fruits of their labor, when suddenly, a child cried out!
A wild-eyed creature with bright face paint, bird feathers in its head and only dressed in a skirt was holding her baby brother at tomahawk point! Alarmed and angered, the Pilgrim men grabbed their pebble shooters and approached this strange savage, who had the countenance of a human but the mannerisms of beast!
Who would dare enter their camp and threaten one of their children? Before firing their weapons, however, one Pilgrim named John Smith Jr. looked back into a forest path, and saw several shivering women and children. Suddenly, it all clicked in his mind. “These are the Indians the writings of Columbus warned about, I bet they need our help.”
Instead of chastising the large, wild man who threatened their kid, the Pilgrims brought him a blanket and some hot tea. They motioned to the forest for whoever was hiding to come join them, and out emerged 92 Indians!
Quickly, the proto-American women began to cook a massive meal. Cornbread, stuffing, gravies, truss turkey, hams, pumpkin pie. Sweet potato pies, greens, beans, peas, the works! Everything! Apple cider, ducks, geese, venison, pastries. The Pilgrim women made it all.
It’s said those 92 Indians had never eaten such a meal. The Pilgrims also shared proper medicine with them and tried to communicate tips on how to teach the Indians to live in the bitter north parts of our country in the winter. They didn’t tell them to get out, but instead, embraced them with the warm arms of Christian love and brotherhood.
When everything was prepared, they all sat down together at large, connected tables and joined hands. They bowed their heads and said the first Thanksgiving Prayer, mouths ready to eat great food and laugh as they shared company with new friends.
That was the first true Thanksgiving. The coming together of a civilized people and a needy feathered. A story of how instead of resorting to war, two different groups instead had a feast together and became the best of friends, giving thanks for the company of one another.
And though the Indians had much to be grateful for, from the food to the medicine to the amicable response given in response to their threats of mean violence, the Pilgrims were also grateful for their new friends to keep them company in their new country, where one day Manifest Destiny would lead them to make the most peaceful, bountiful and accepting land on Earth. Glory.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Author: Abe
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3:04 pm
allright lets play find the flaws
first of the pillgrims wasn’t exactly chrstian. allright they may have been i’m not 100% sure but i do know that the majority of them also belived that every man had the right to choce his own belif.
second you history of why the idians joined the meal is WAY of. i fact the indians taught the pilgrims how to grow corn and catch eels. yes it was the indians who helped the pilgrims though i’m sure it was help going both ways.
third the meal is off aswell. what was served was:fowl, venison, fish, lobster, clams, berries, fruit, pumpkin, and squash.
however as an end note i would like to add that it’s nice to for once see an article from you thats not spewing hate even if there’s a bit of racism
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4:00 pm
Not to mention that there is No lion in america as for grizzly bears its was more to the north of the america (continent)
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3:34 pm
I’m not racist, I’m American.
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4:28 pm
in that case you’re also not christian am i right?
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7:53 pm
“The Pilgrims also shared proper medicine with them and tried to communicate tips on how to teach the Indians to live in the bitter north parts of our country in the winter.”
Um.. the NATIVE AMERICANS (Not Indians, they’re from India, dumbass) had lived here centuries longer than the immigrants we now call Americans, they knew damn well how to live the winters.
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9:18 pm
“The land was beautiful, yet savage and untamed. In its overgrown forests and grasses crawled buffalo, grizzly bears, Indians and mountain lions! Uncut and savage!”
In other words, the land was inhabited by the creatures and people who belonged there.
“As the new winter approached in November of 1621, the colony of Plymouth was already having a Golden age.”
Bull. The Pilgrims were faring very poorly until the Native Americans taught them proper harvesting.
“Before firing their weapons, however, one Pilgrim named John Smith Jr. looked back into a forest path, and saw several shivering women and children.”
Are you retarded? The Natives, unlike the Pilgrims, actually knew how to start a freakin’ fire so that they didn’t freeze to death. The Pilgrims were the ones who were shivering.
“It’s said those 92 Indians had never eaten such a meal.”
Oh give me a fucking break! Any five year old who’s seen Pocahontas knows that the Natives knew how to eat, whether they were in Massachusetts or Virginia!
“The Pilgrims also shared proper medicine with them”
And also gave them smallpox…
“and tried to communicate tips on how to teach the Indians to live in the bitter north parts of our country in the winter.”
Jesus Christ on iceskates, open up a freakin’ history book for once! It was the EXACT opposite. It was the Pilgrims who were freezing their balls off for years before the Natives taught them how to stay warm.
“The coming together of a civilized people and a needy feathered.”
You racist fuck. I hope you die in a fire. I would most certainly give thanks for that, as would everyone else on this site.
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10:58 pm
The natives who had somehow wandered into our country would not have lasted too much longer had not the Pilgrims arrived when they did.
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11:06 pm
Amber, please take a shotgun, put it in your mouth, and pull the trigger. I’d be more than happy to do it for you.
“The natives who had somehow wandered into our country would not have lasted too much longer had not the Pilgrims arrived when they did.”
First of all, you used the word “natives”, therefore you’re admitting to the fact that the Natives were, indeed, native.
Second, your claim that they wouldn’t have lasted much longer until the pilgrims showed up is not supported at all by the events of history. The native population DECLINED by the millions upon the arrival of white people, thanks to a nasty little disease called smallpox and the invention of rifles. If colonists had never arrived in “the new world”, the Native American population would still be going strong. However, Columbus committed genocide, wiping out the Native Americans by the millions, and the English continued his reign of terror.
So Amber, pick up a history book, read about the colonization of America, and then proceed to put that shotgun in your mouth.
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11:02 pm
Hello Claire let me learn you some facts women. Just because a creature happens to wander into a place, does not mean it belongs there. Too bad animal control didn’t exist back then, because it would have made it easier for the Pilgrims to get all the annoyances listed off their property.
The Pilgrims were also very advanced, in terms of technology. While the Indians were still wearing leather moccasins and only crude skirts and shawls for clothing, the Pilgrim Americans created boats that could travel across an ocean. Maps that could help them find all their land across the globe.
They had mastered fire to the point that they could temper steel and wield firearms. Building a simple fire and cooking meat over it, cured meat that they had saved, was nothing to them.
They is also called Indians because that is what Columbus named them when he discovered them 200 years prior to the Pilgrims coming back to officially start building our country and shoo the creatures out of where we needed to build civilization upon our land.
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4:33 am
well at least you admit you stole the land.
but still no. the indians(who btw was named as such based on a mistake. columbus thought he had reached india.) had been there for centuries. when the wikings reached america arouns year 900 or something the native aericans was also present
you are right in same aspects the pilgrims did bring new helpfull technology that they shared with the natives however it was the nativs who taught the pilgrims the art of survival and the indians would have easily survived without them turning up(or as claire said would have survived since the colonists wouldn’t have killed the majority)
yes the indians were quite crude compared to the pilgrims however that was theire way of life
christians live quite crude compared to most atheists should we also comit genocide against you?
again america wasn’t exactly the land of the pilgrims. it would be like me going into you living room declaring that now i live there and shot at you every time you go near “my” property
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2:30 am
Of course, let’s celebrate unification and friendship of Indians and Pilgrims! Heck, you came to their land, took it away, started wiping them out and placing them in colonies like animals. And America celebrates that. If Thanksgiving isn’t government propaganda then I’m Queen of England! Instead of condemning those crimes you go and have a meal.
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11:45 pm
I bet the developers get a kick out of the ignorant debates that swirl around their satire. The comments posted below articles throughout this site are a testament to the self-righteous, know-it-all audacity of this suicidal species, man(un)kind.
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11:40 am
care to elaborate?
i’m not sure if you’re makeing fun at the guys who post all the inasne christian bullshit or us who reply to the insanity…or what exactly you talk abot at all
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11:50 pm
I bet the developers get a kick out of the ignorance of the folks who comment on this site
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