What is the origin of Thanksgiving? ?
The origin of Thanksgiving can be traced back to the beginning of American history. /kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, the English Puritans were persecuted, and a group of English Puritans could not bear the religious persecution. On September 1620, they boarded the sailboat Mayflower and sailed for America, a "new continent" just discovered by Columbus.1February 26th arrived in Plymouth Harbor, USA today. In the winter between 1620 and 162 1 year, only 50 of the 102 Puritans survived because of the lack of fresh fruits and vegetables, the prevalence of scurvy and hunger and cold. Of course, the reason why this voyage is famous in history is the signing of the Mayflower Convention, which is the first political contract document in American history and is called the American birth certificate.
It's the cold winter, and when they come to a strange place, they are short of clothes and food, and the harsh environment is threatening their lives. At this critical moment, the local Wampanoag Indians generously took out the corn and potatoes that had been stored for the winter and sent them to the wild ducks and turkeys they had hunted. Indians also taught them to grow corn and pumpkins and raise turkeys. With the help of Indians, these new immigrants began to adapt to life in this land. With the help of Indians, the immigrants finally got a bumper harvest. According to religious traditions and customs, immigrants set the harvest day as Thanksgiving Day, and invited aborigines to celebrate the festival together to thank their gifts. This is the origin of the original Thanksgiving Day.
At first, there was no fixed date for Thanksgiving Day, which was temporarily decided by American states. 1789, President Washington officially stipulated that 1 1 26th is the Thanksgiving Day celebrated by the whole country. However, for a long time, each state has set a holiday date according to its own situation. It was not until 1863 after the independence of the United States that President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday. 194 1 year, in order to extend the Christmas shopping season and stimulate the economy, President Roosevelt signed a congressional resolution declaring the fourth Thursday of 1 1 month as Thanksgiving Day.
Here you will know that Thanksgiving Day should actually be the anniversary for the British colonists to thank the kind Indians for their help when they first arrived in the American continent. It is a day to celebrate gratitude, but it didn't last long, and this Thanksgiving Day became the end of the Indians.
Indian "Day of Mourning"
In the first hundred years, the relationship between European immigrants and Indians was generally peaceful. Europeans did not have enough numbers and strength to plunder Indians, and Indians never took the initiative to attack this group of outsiders. However, with the increasing number of immigrants, the strength contrast between the two sides is becoming more and more disparity, and peace no longer exists.
If there were more colonists, there would be war, and the war between Indians and colonists broke out. 1830, the American Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which was approved by President andrew jackson. Since then, Congress has allocated funds for federal negotiations with tribes to move them to the west. The tribes in the south are facing the double pressure from the state government and the federal government. Most tribes are unable to resist, so they have to cede their land, get some symbolic reparations, and then leave for the west. This is the famous "Westward Movement" in American history.
With the westward movement, a large number of Indians were slaughtered, and the survivors were forcibly driven to a more desolate "reservation". The forced migration of Indians is also known as the "road of blood and tears" of Indians. As one of several human species, Indians are basically extinct as a whole. It is estimated that when Columbus arrived in the New World, there were more than10 million Indians. By 1900, the population of the United States was about 76 million, but there were only 200,000 Indians left. Eliot Mollison, a professor at Harvard University, wrote about American history: "It was Columbus who initiated this cruel policy, and later people inherited his practice, and the result was genocide."
The European immigrants who participated in the massacre at that time thanked God for helping them a lot and enabling them to win quickly. Therefore, in that year, that is, 1637, John Winthrop, then governor of Massachusetts, said: This day should be a celebration day. Thank God for letting them conquer the Pecots. This is the "Thanksgiving Day" for Americans.
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Therefore, for Indians, this so-called Thanksgiving Day is a "mourning day", because on that day, countless compatriots died at the hands of the colonists, and the kind Indians who helped the colonists were forced to move to the desolate land in the western United States to survive. This is the truth of history, which is similar to the story of "Farmers and Snakes" in China.
Indians are very angry about this "Thanksgiving Day". In their eyes, this festival is the anniversary of "Americans" killing and expelling them. Therefore, no native Indians will have been to this festival, which is their eternal pain. Just like the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day in China, this is their "mourning day", and all Indians mourn their murdered compatriots on this day.
? Now the Indians in the north of Mexico have not changed their religion for more than 400 years, and they still live in the so-called reservation, and they still don't recognize the American government, and they don't pay taxes to it, let alone celebrate Thanksgiving. ?
Why is Britain in cahoots with the United States in the international community now? Because the so-called "Americans" are descendants of British colonists, and they are family from the root. Otherwise, why can the United States get the support of most European countries such as Britain? This is the root cause, not to mention encroaching on the land of North American aborigines "Indians", but also driving people to the western wilderness of the United States (understand What is the situation in the western part of the United States), almost completely eliminated, hurry up, even now the Indians in the United States have no position, and they can only survive, which is why Americans like to invade and plunder small and weak countries. They are colonists, greedy and shameless are their nature, and even the Indians who helped them can be brutally killed and driven away, not to mention other countries. Now white Americans have never been the masters of the American continent, occupying other people's territories and killing local ethnic groups. This is what westerners do.