Thanksgiving, a lie stuffed into a turkey
Publié le 20/12/2021
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Thanksgiving, a lie stuffed into a turkey.
The U.S.
Army attacks a Native American village in the 19th century.
As everyone prepares for Thanksgiving, there is a much darker story behind this holiday.
Indeed, the
version told to the public maintains the myth of the kindly white-European settler while Thanksgiving
celebrates the genocide of Native Americans.
On November 26, 1789, George Washington, President of the United States at the time, inaugurated
the very first Thanksgiving Day and Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, announced that the national holiday of
Thanksgiving would be celebrated every fourth Thursday in November.
This commemoration, "a
symbol of sharing and national unity" is a perpetual affront to the descendants of Native Americans,
an odious forgotten carnage that Americans praise and that reminds them of the Fort
Mystic/Pequots massacre.
In 1636, the Pequots went to war against the English invader and the conflict ended in defeat for this
people.
If this struggle has been ignored or even forgotten by many Americans, the Fort
Mystic/Pequot massacre has remained embedded in many memories, especially among Natives
Americans.
On May 26, 1636, more than 500 Native Americans men, women, and children were
exterminated because of the color of their skin.
This dramatic event, triggered a genocide spread over three centuries, and which the the United
States persists in denying, will be the foundation on which the Thanksgiving holiday is truly based.
Governor William Bradford declared a few days after the killing that it was "a day of gratitude,
thanking God that their men had eliminated no less than 500 men, women and children.
Henceforth
this day will be a day of celebration and thanks for the defeat of the Pequots.
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But the origin of this holiday continues to divide public opinion because the descendants of Natives
remain convinced that this holiday is associated with an odious massacre of the indigenous
population while the vast majority of Americans see in this November feast only a celebration of the.
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