Thanksgiving not really Thanksgiving but another event of the same name?
Here's the case for the prosecution, which boils down to: there was a party in 1621 and Indians did join and bring food; a generation later, 1637, there was a fight. http://www.oyate.org/resources/shortthanks.html
Here's a more balanced, realistic account (search for Englishmen to skip to the key events of 1621)
http://xiphias.livejournal.com/544757.html?style=mine#cutid1 Massasoit's expert political manipulation maintained peace in the region for at least fifty years. [....] Maybe not very many generations -- but nonetheless, an accomplishment to be celebrated.
Here's the original British account, which sounds like a prospectus, but isn't that far off in the facts of the 1621 event it describes. Behind the cut for length.
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Here's a more balanced, realistic account (search for Englishmen to skip to the key events of 1621)
http://xiphias.livejournal.com/544757.html?style=mine#cutid1 Massasoit's expert political manipulation maintained peace in the region for at least fifty years. [....] Maybe not very many generations -- but nonetheless, an accomplishment to be celebrated.
Here's the original British account, which sounds like a prospectus, but isn't that far off in the facts of the 1621 event it describes. Behind the cut for length.
( Read more... )