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No thanks No Giving - The true Story of "Thanksgiving"

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For an Indian, who is also a school teacher, Thanksgiving was never an easy holiday for me to deal with in class. I sometimes have felt like I learned too much about "the Pilgrims and the Indians." Every year I have been faced with the professional and moral dilemma of just how to be honest and informative with my children at Thanksgiving without passing on historical distortions, and racial and cultural stereotypes. The problem is that part of what you and I learned in our own childhood about the "Pilgrims" and "Squanto" and the "First Thanksgiving" is a mixture of both history and myth. But the THEME of Thanksgiving has truth and integrity far above and beyond what we and our forebearers have made of it. Thanksgiving is a bigger concept than just the story of the founding of the Plymouth Plantation. So what do we teach to our children? We usually pass on unquestioned what we all received in our own childhood classrooms. I have come to know both the truths and the myths about our "First Thanksgiving," and I feel we need to try to reach beyond the myths to some degree of historic truth. This text is an attempt to do this.
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4 comments // No thanks No Giving - The true Story of "Thanksgiving"

  • mixmaster
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  

    • Well, it is a holiday that is celebrated by gluttony and that is fairly appropriate. Since I found out what crimes of humanity actually occurred in the seizing of this country, I never have a thanksgiving where I do not think of the civilizations that were lost. I mourn the loss.

    • 3 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  

    • its the most obnoxious holiday we have imagine if germany had a day dedicated to being greatfull for all they are blessed with through the narrative of kristalnocht

    • 3 years ago
  • MotherForTruth

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