Turkeys Died To Set The White Man Free?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Thanksgiving was not instituted to celebrate genocide of Indians.

Never said it was instituted to remember the genocide of the Indians.

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Indians were not systematically wiped out by the Pilgrims, nor was there violence at first. Yes later there was bloodshed but I would not call that genocide.

The Wampanoag tribe was whittled down from 30,000 to 2,000 that's not genocide because 2,000 manged to survive?

Originally Posted by Praxeas

A Lot of people on both sides of the argument would be surprised to learn the facts of the first settlers AND How our Thanksgiving Holiday began

http://www.history.com/topics/pilgrims

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-the-pilgrims/

I understand the whole history of how Thanksgiving became a national holiday, but what the real irony here is that the coming of the Puritan Europeans didn't bring anything to be thankful about to a people who were already living in North Eastern America. The Washington Post snippet makes everything pretty much vanilla, when the facts remain, like Columbus landing in Hispaniola which caused GENOCIDE of the Taíno Indians, the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth Massachusetts not the advent of Christian love, but death.

The Pequot, the Narraganset, and the Wampanoag all fell under the buckled shoes of the Puritans, and in time the rest of the American Indian population was next on the menu when the Europeans decided to populate the rest of the country.

Yet, I think I know what you are trying to get at with the websites you offered.