Thanks Giving

[Hank]

Since I immigrated to Canada I celebrate thanks giving. Today is no exception.

Now looking at google I am no longer sure how this all got started. Anyone knows the actual origins?

 

[TwinCrier]

Every country has Thanksgiving on different days and usually different origins. In the US, it celebrates the early immigrants to this country surviving and making peace with the natives. Our Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, the 28 this year. Our family has a lot to be thankful for this year!

 

[two feathers]

Originally posted by TwinCrier
Thanksgiving in the US celebrates the early immigrants to this country surviving and making peace with the natives.

"making peace with the natives"

you seem to have a misguided sense of history.

 

[harpy.of.the.storm.swift]

i think americans celebrate thanksgiving to give thanks for having survived. originally. now you just celebrate whatever you're thankful about. i would never say it's about having made peace with native americans...no one has made peace with the natives. unless you call vicious attacks and segregation peace. hmmm.

 

[Blackhawk]

Originally posted by two feathers
"making peace with the natives"

you seem to have a misguided sense of history.

Maybe I do to but didn't they make peace with the natives at that time?

 

[two feathers]

i wouldn't say the pilgrims made peace with the wampanoag.

the wampanoag welcomed the pilgrims with open arms, only later to find that the kindness they showed towards, and the trust they harbored for, these foreigners became their own undoing.

the wampanoag were massacred.