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Warmest Greetings,
:: Monday, December 02, 2002 ::
Thanksgiving and Intolerance
Every Thanksgiving my kids and I talk about how Thanksgiving started, and we remember the part that most people forget - that the Indians who helped the Pilgrims were later killed by hatred and disease by the children of those Pilgrims and additional settlers to the region.
We talk about how people think they know what's right for other people, and interfere with lives, culture and religious teachings because they feel they have the right to do so. The Native Americans had no defense against bigotry, germs and beliefs brought about by fear. Fortunately some people, such as Benjamin Franklin, saw how intelligent the "savages" were, and the US Constitution is based on Indian political practices.
Thanksgiving 2002 in the US is over, but the lessons from 1620 still exist to this day. Surviving Native Americans have been pushed into lands designated for them to live. Americans are preparing to go to war in Iraq and possibly change an entire culture again, with the help of countries who helped displace the original inhabitants of North America.
In 1970 an ancestor to the original Wampanoag people, who helped the Pilgrims, said in a speech:
"Today is a time of celebrating for you -- a time of looking back to the first days of white people in America. But it is not a time of celebrating for me. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my People. When the Pilgrims arrived, we, the Wampanoags, welcomed them with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end. That before 50 years were to pass, the Wampanoag would no longer be a tribe. That we and other Indians living near the settlers would be killed by their guns or dead from diseases that we caught from them. Let us always remember, the Indian is and was just as human as the white people. Although our way of life is almost gone, we, the Wampanoags, still walk the lands of Massachusetts. What has happened cannot be changed. But today we work toward a better America, a more Indian America where people and nature once again are important."
Source: Thanksgiving Story
Today's sad news: Google is still in the news
Today's good news: My kids are cleaning the house without me asking for their help.
Latest adventure: Two surprises from generous people that gave me a chance at some much needed R&R
Believe it or not: I didn't drop the turkey on the floor while pulling it out for carving.
:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 12/02/2002 05:20:08 PM
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