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- ‘What I don’t like is the underlying tragedy and genocide that we ignore on [Thanksgiving]’ - Native activist and playwright Larissa FastHorse wants you to question what you know about Turkey Day.
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In US news and current events today, Native American activist and playwright Larissa FastHorse spoke to NowThis News about the reality of Thanksgiving. American children often learn the glossy version of the First Thanksgiving in which Native Americans sat down for a meal with the pilgrims who arrived at Plymouth Rock. But that Thanksgiving history skips over the truth behind Thanksgiving and its place in the often violent American history.
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They didn’t teach this in my history classes.
because it's not true
hannah1943 it is true
@@hannah1943 Excuse me what??_
@SsSs RoBbSs Unless you are attempting to engage in a debate influenced by Post-Modern questions about the very nature of truth, I suspect you are casting doubt on the basic veracity of accusations levelled in the video. Here goes! What is being suggested is that the Thanksgiving myth of nice Pilgrims sitting down to celebrate the harvest festival with grateful Native Americans is actually deeply misleading. It probably never happened. Moreover, It disguises the historical fact that primarily Judeo-Christian European settlers arrived (with documentation of passage to prove that they really did turn up!) a few hundred years ago and began the systematic slaughter and forced displacement of Native American tribes, godforsaken heathens, that lived in what we are now obliged to call the USA & Northern Mexico for probably thousands of years. Newly sequenced genomes suggest that the Native American gene pool goes as far back as 9,600 years ago, according to the recent study of remains in Brasil. Mass migration further North was gradual but, nevertheless, they were there (in Northern America) first and it can be easily verified through carbon dating of relics and bones and the study of genome traces. White Judeo-Christians decimated Indigenous 'opposition' through a series of major battles over 200 years in order to appropriate the land for the New Americans. In the early 17th Century, the settlers introduced the Slave trade in primarily African meat (I use that term intentionally, to reflect trader ideology at the time, not mine!) into America, with the help of their old European cousins to capture & deliver the vast amounts of cheap labour necessary to cultivate the abundant natural resources. Again, shipping and trading records are all there to prove it. The Harvest Festival also began in the early 17th Century by Pilgrims and developed into what is viewed by Native Americans as an intrinsically racist celebration of the 'accomplishments' of the new white settlers, toasting their victory over 'opposition' and chaos in order to create the New World, as reflected in their nicely organised, bountiful harvest each year, for which Americans give Thanksgiving to God to this day. That's what is basically true, my friend. I would have thought this was all common knowledge by now but there you go.
What I will add, for those who feel I am targeting American history unfairly, is that virtually every nation on earth is responsible for historic atrocities against other nations/tribal settlements at some point. As Dr. Jacob Bronowski once pointed out, as soon as ancient nomads decided to settle down into organised farming communities (approx 10,000 years ago), other nomads saw a quick opportunity for free food & resources. Hence organised, relatively large scale warfare against settlements came into being. Nobody is free of guilt, historically speaking. We should just be thankful that our species still exists, really. Best wishes!
They didn't teach you that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
Imagine creating a society when “holidays” are one of the few occasions where people can actually spend time with their family. Genocide is still occurring, especially in Bolivia right now! We need to radically change the way we relate to each other and the environment!
History is a weapon and I hope you continue to question, examine and thoroughly investigate the past!
You crybaby liberals can never stop complaing
Imagine taking this video at face value and believing everything on the internet. This video is a lie, it’s propaganda.
Oh, yes, yesterday (January 4th) was a great World Braille Day that involved festivities of a significant portion of my family, a total of 8 people, playing Mario Kart, Wii tennis and Cards Against Humanity. My favorite holiday of 2020 so far.
@@Nardos553 everything's political nowadays apparently
@@Nardos553 history is politics.
Meanwhile CZcams influencers are treated like cult gods. Oh how times have changed.
People are getting dumber 100%
Just because you see it now doesn't mean it wasn't always there... Talking about dumb people
@@fatlacesthedon See what now, CZcams influencers ? Umm ... it wasn't there becuase CZcams wasn't created back then, you had Jim Jones and Charles Manson type of cults. And if you want to get technical you can even say the "Church Of Scientology" is a cult. I'm baffled by your intellect, please do explain your argument cause I'm really confused. Unless ...
Ok .. your channel explains a lot. Good luck in the world good sir.
@@alphwolf598 You act like you weren't taught grammar in Elementary school; like there's not a reasonable expectation for you to speak English WITH correct grammar so that anyone who knows English can effectively communicate with you.
@@joew.4073 I don't know how to spell very well I was in special education but it don't slow me down from trying to better myself. So keep your great spelling and I'll keep my bad grammar
@@alphwolf598 You don’t owe anyone an explanation.🙏🏼🙂
This is just ONE of the stories we were brain washed & lied to about
I think it’s more along the lines of they taught us this at an early age because they couldn’t just ignore the holiday(s) so they had to explain them to children in the lightest most joyful way they could. And then the education system(s) failed us by not teaching the actual events at all later on.
That's why I see Thanksgiving as a regular ordinary day
Brainwashing complete
@@mossbergshockwave9629 by the truth.
Is believing in gravity brainwashing?
Or that lighting strikes harm or fire you?
@Chick Mcn of course they would say that, why would they make it a day to remember the natives. Both of these presidents had issues with uniting America so of-course they'd try to grasp on something almost every American believed in. They simply changed the narrative to adhere to solve their problems. James K Polk said that it was Americas 'manifest destiny' to claim America (Gods will) we know that was an excuse to gain more land for the US and remove the natives already living there.
Erdood she didn’t even debunk the story about Squanto or anything about the original thanksgiving, she just complained about native treatment, blah blah blah
Native Americana call Thanksgiving a celebration of horror .
all my life I've always wanted to know the truth about things so I dig, as a child I was asked to leave bible study for asking hard questions, once I asked an Native American, Paul Banyaca an amazing man ( look him up ) and he explained the truth about Thanksgiving from his peoples view he's/ was a Hopi Elder, LOVED this man his wisdom & compassion was unmatched. The world is a lesser place without him. however the BS we've been taught in school about our history, keep in mind history is written by the winners. do your homework folks
@Marshall Kinnaird shut up! History is great. There is good history and theres bad history.
I'd love to hear what he told you.
@@jer1014t2th if u have looked Paul up should give u a grand over view, he spoke at the UN several times, here's one, the US is the only reason the Native people aren't represented in the UN. my conversations with him mostly sitting at his feet next to his pot belly stove he always kept a fire going in for warmth while he'd laugh at me firing multiple questions at him. sorry this is a very long conversation, not prepared to tell yet, but do look him up
The Hopi had nothing to do with Thanksgiving
@@aidanroberts9888 never said they did
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu
🥀💔 True history.
Land that they actually made use of
I do not celebrate holidays. Me and my family spend time everyday.
I don't celebrate either. I used to. I just wait till these awful holidays pass each year.
@@feliciakidd9358 Exactly 💯
thanksgiving is the day to be thankful, regardless of its perceived origin. lets use the day to celebrate our family, and the ancient ancestors of this land.
It's hard to celibate on a day that marks colonization and steeling land away
This is a perfect example, of the mythology of Thanksgiving, "morphing over the centuries" that can be applied to religion. Because the same thing has happened there.
@leicanoct 👏👏👏👍
Don't be like this woman. She just wants people who had nothing to do with something to feel guilty. She won't be happy until Thanksgiving is canceled and it's because she's miserable.
@@joerogaine3093 Its more like they dont understand that bad things happen when you invite people in. Plus blaming disease on one group of people is racist.
@@joerogaine3093 Thanksgiving will never be canceled. No matter how much they cry.
@@brittanyhayes1043 Yep, you get it
OH WAAAAAAA!! THAT WAS HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO SO SICK OF WHINERS WHO RUIN EVERYTHING
Thanksgiving should be a day of mourning... and remembrance.
No, it shouldn't. Do you mourn other events that had nothing to do with anyone alive today that happened hundreds of year ago? No. Living in the past means never moving forward.
polifatts your ignorance is what’s wrong with the world today
@Se Ou that's harsh.
Nothing in the world has been sobbed over more than "Native American Genocide". I can literally think of more references to the tragedy of the American Indian in the media than the Holocaust. 364 days of mourning is not enough for you?
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath truth is ppl like you think we suppose to move on get over it accept what happen. No did we get and apology or something for the evil act. No my children know the truth and we will never trust the Europeans we have to live with them but trust anything they say no. You never go unpunished for evil
I appreciate Thanksgiving as a holiday, but understanding the true history and sequence of events as a whole can bring so much more depth to the holiday and can morph into a greater respect of how we got here today and what we can do now.
to bad.. its 2022 we have high speed internet and people as ignorant as ever. most people dont even think that Natives still to this day live in reservations on there own land.
@@blackdrop3844 -It’s funny to hear people speak of ignorance, who don’t know any of the actual history, only modern activist propaganda. In actual history, the Mohawk dominated the Iroquois Confederacy and subjugated other tribes by forcing them into wars against still other tribes and even eradicating tribes rebellious to the Confederacy. How they used their connections with British fur traders to trade for huge amounts of firearms so they could ruthlessly attack and eradicate Algonquin tribes and take their land, who had once been the conquerors. Most of the actual history of the many tribes, that were not unified, is filled with these types of events, just like Europe 1600 years ago, or Asia 2000 years ago, Africa, even today, and South America 500 years ago.
I don’t hear people complaining that the remnant people in Europe from the tribes that existed there before be enshrined and given back their lands. Countries like Nepal, Russia, and China have stolen lands that were conquered by the Mongolians, just like Native American tribes. Where are their reparations? Or what about the Huns whose land the Mongols stole before that? They were driven to the West and ended up on the Eastern Roman Empire’s door step in their own trail of tears. What about the tribes the Huns displaced…? The Earth’s history, including the hundreds of North American tribes is one of the conquerors and the conquered. And, just because that has happened doesn’t mean we can’t have and celebrate holidays’ whose meanings surpass their origins.
@@blackdrop3844 you are still in the dark and drunk off colonizers' lies.
@@blackdrop3844 On "their" land, if you want to know the truth, this land was conquered by Americans and those mfs are treason to USA but still act like victims to get free stuff.
I mean Thanksgiving was made a federal holiday by Abraham Lincoln as a means of searching back into American history and finding a moment where people with extreme differences actually got along for a single meal. No one was ever taught that the pilgrims treated Indians kindly or vice versa, it was the opposite. That was why it was significant to see even a single meal be shared in solitude. This was because American was under some of the most divided and tumultuous time in American history. And honestly that is exactly the kind of day we need to be having. Perhaps that isn’t your pick for such a time of coming together. Pick a new one then! Turkey wasn’t even served during that historic meal anyhow, but the point was to be thankful of the blessing we are living in a hopeful for a brighter future
Idk I was taught that they got along just fine when I was a kid I was taught to complete lie.
You’re missing the point. Your ignorance is the problem and your willingness to be ignorant however we know the truth. We don’t forgive you and justice will come
i'm willing to bet all the dislikes came from the people who're trying to ignore the truth or have family that were part of or ok with this happening back then.
I don’t care about it lol
So the innocent civilians that had nothing to do with taking land and wanted to escape England are also guilty?
have u ever stoped and asked why these liberals only teach what the pilgrims did...u dont find it weird they dont teach u about who was here before the indians and who the indians killed
I think it’s because the lady isn’t speaking historical facts. The natives weren’t a monolith. They were dozens if not hundreds of different tribes. Check Prager U’s videos of thanksgiving. Look at the surveys done that show large percentages of minorities, excluding blacks, aren’t offended by most of the things that leftist tell you they are offended of.....exhibit A- only 10% of natives are offended by the Redskins mascot
This is idiotic. The truth is that it was a day of celebration, no matter how hard people who love identity politics try to divide everyone. This lady’s opinion is fine with me until she started lying about the first Thanksgiving. I’m sick to death at people who try to pit one identity group against another. Thanksgiving was a happy day where no one was attacked or killed. Thee are indisputable facts. Stop trying to make feelings Trump facts.
many families just wanna spend time together and be thankful for everything we have and that we take for granted everyday, what's wrong with spending time with your family and being thankful
Nothin. But it sounds like you didn't watch the video. ,🤔
Nothing is wrong with that. That's what I do. But many people celebrate it for that event and never acknowledge the real truth behind it. She's showing awareness. I do the same with xmas. Xmas is the day of giving and Thanksgiving is the day of togetherness. You can put your own stamp on it I guess. Happy Turkey day my friend.
I agree sucks the history behind it thought.... What we can do thought is show apreciation in this day towards native Americans... Il be the first and say thank you
Funny Visuals why you ask “ what’s wrong “ ?
it's a monetized holiday, about genocide and stolen land. But dumbass America will make you believe it's about spending time with family, I bet companies pockets are overflowing right now, bloodshed never tasted better.
Ever since I was younger and we learned about native americans in history class I always wondered why would we celebrate thanksgiving with all the horrible things that was done to them. That's why to this day I don't celebrate it. And wherever I tell someone that they say " that's dumb, thats not what Thanksgiving is about".
I mean they are right Thanksgiving is about celebrating genocide lol
Yep, or they look at you crazy when you say you don't celebrate ANY holidays.
While yes the origin of thanksgiving has very dark undertones,I don’t think the average person is thinking about it as celebrated Native American genocide,rather a celebration of giving thanks and for family,I think it has morphed into something different from its origins to a point where it is completely new. But if you don’t want to celebrate for one reason or another I can respect that
@@sniceverything4944 while I get that people choose to celebrate about giving thanks and spending time with loved ones I also feel like it's one of the issues here in the US. It's like "Hey, look at this one good thing, but we don't talk about or acknowledge all the bad things behind it."
👏👏
History class at this point is just a facade.
No genocide was conducted on Thanksgiving and its a day we come together to be thankful not to kill...
As to "stealing" the land, EVERY major land mass has been taken by those with guns and more men.
Why doesn’t this have a million views???
Because it isn't true
@@jessetellez3924 No, it's actually the other way around.
Since it's the Truth, you have to search for it.
It's not in the propaganda-pushing algorithm.
It is a lopsided, as learning something new. It is very boring, and really.....nobody cares!! History, is in the eye of the beholder. Ex. Fasthorse is a fake name cause it is in English. It hard to take this serious.
@@MariaMaria-ng5ki no it’s far from the truth.
Early settlers and native Americans experienced many years of peace before any violence took place. But the truth is that everyone back then were savages, not just the settlers. Thanksgiving is about unity and family, but can also be about recognizing the events that took place.
@@MariaMaria-ng5ki he is correct. the famous dinner with the pilgrims happened between 1619-1621 the horrifical massacre shes talking about happened in 1782. that would have been around 7 to 8 generations later. a simple look into the dates tells you it isn't true
this is a cold harsh reality. Keep bringing the truth.
im grateful for the good ole USA and so should all of you and we should protect her.i enjoy celebrating thanksgiving but there are always these people who try to be downers on everything and make us feel bad over stuff that happened over 500 years ago and i dont
My teachers told us the truth even in high school. Thanksgiving is nothing more then a harvest meal to me and its for family and friends. We also look to history in my house.
Thanks giving is a day to be greatful
@Megan Todd ye sit is. Dont pay attention to the haters.
Where do I get that T-shirt??
I'll love to find it too!
Yep. I need that.
Yeah I'm pretty sure nobody celebrates Thanksgiving thinking of genocide. Whatever its origins are, it has a different meaning now.
I love that! What can you give within your means!
She’s speaking facts
LOL!!
What part of Thanksgiving has to do with Genocide then?
@bridogg154 wtf is wrong with u
@@dfmrcv862 the 170 million native Americans slaughtered.
zak ortega its sad native Americans set a feast to welcome english settlers... They got sick with thier diseases then got backstabed after the banquete they made for them...... Happy thanksgiving
“why do we dress our children up in costumes of people that did horrible things?”
On halloween, why do we let our children dress up as pirates or ninjas? They also did terrible things which should never be honored. So your logic is flawed, ma’am
Classic comparison fallacy. There is underlying mythology surrounding thanksgiving that celebrates the puritans and the colonists while excusing the genocide. Furthermore, this mythology is pure propaganda to create a false narrative that the Puritans were tolerant and friendly to indigenous tribes which is far from the case. Halloween does not employ these tactics for pirates, ninjas etc. Thus, your argument is invalid.
Catherine Arnpriester
Well you can’t say that one side was innocent and the other evil.
Somebody called the wambulance. Happy Thanksgiving!
Y’all dress up for thanksgiving
I’ve never seen anyone dress up for thanksgiving
Amen.
Who tf wears a costume for Thanksgiving? Also, wtf is a Thanksgiving song?
Valid questions
Thanksgiving plays performed by the younger kids are actually fairly common.
When we see how history has taught us from history its self then we all will be comfortable with the truth tusli 2020
Obviously a LOT of bad tragedies happened with the colonialism of America, and Thanksgiving includes some of that, but Thanksgiving has morphed beyond that.
Thanksgiving is a time for family, for friends, and for giving thanks to all the good stuff you have in life. And if you look at it that way, it loses its connection to a pretty bad history.
No it will always have that connection to the people who's land was stolen from.
@@lunawolfheart336 of course it still has connection, although thanksgiving was one of the first times in which the settlers and natives celebrated together.
The pilgrims faced hardship too, they were fleeing religious persecution from England. The majority of them died from disease, hunger, and the freezing winter. There wouldn’t be a Thanksgiving without the Indigenous people though, the Wampanoag tribe helped them survive.
Eventually the natives contributed 5 deer for the feast and sat down alongside the pilgrims at the first thanksgiving, which was originally the celebration of the successful crop harvest, which couldn’t have happened without the natives help.
Of course it was a tragedy that their land was stolen but without indigenous people there would not be a thanksgiving. We can give thanks to them to
1) Every single country has “stolen” land its how the world works
2) The person who made the redskins logo was a Native American and got it signed off but his government/community.
"An Indian". Smh
@@cameliajay5039 Native american mb
Naw look up the website 3 generation! Those are natives who are against using their image and name for white sports teams.
Once i learned about tnxgivin i stopped celebrating it. I just take it as another regular day
@Kake The Sailor no cant ima take as a normal day simple ir u dont that's ok bc thats what u have learned
Thanksgiving woo! USA USA USA! CMON JOIN ME!
*sigh* I don't know what you "learned" but its all wrong. Thanksgiving was a European tradition brought over to the New World, and "The First Thanksgiving" was a real event documented by Edward Winslow and William Bradford (it's a bit of a misnomer but still).
Thanks Gavin whatever sad for people that lost their lives the world is so crazy
Frankly when I was young and learned the truth about thanksgiving it was disappointing and I wondered why we celebrated it. But then I just decided to use it as a day of mourning for the indigenous people who died and be thankful for their kindness for helping the pilgrims when they first came to America even though their kindness was never returned and as a day to be thankful for what I have. So when I saw that indigenous people used the day for mourning as well in the video I was kind of happy that I was respecting the day, the way they wanted it to be respected.
The Native American tribes were killing and conquering each other for hundreds of years before the white man showed up.
@@sinatra222 Person A and B are fighting so person C comes and kills both take their land. Even though Native Americans were conquered we still treated them unfairly for so many years and broke thousands of treaties.
@@kingdomross8974 Yes, that is how it works. To the victors go the spoils.
@@sinatra222 keep breaking promises that's America way that's why people don't trust America.
@@kingdomross8974 wat
One the the woman talking wasn't born in the 1700's what does she know about early America nothing at all. I'm native American no MF has the right to be mad unless you native Americans. But the past has mad us stronger and we come together on this holiday with family no to linger on the past to remember how far we have came as people
Dont Hate The Truth we didn’t come far at all I’m Native American as well. And we have NOT gotten stronger my friend. As sad as I am to say it, we’re dying and no one isn’t doing anything.. except watch
Izaak Murillo
As a culture or race?
TrueMohax both
Her level of arrogance and ignorance is astounding. Like it or not, this is the cruel history of the world. Europeans did drive out her Lakota ancestors; however, her ancestors did the same to the Cheyenne and Crow tribes who were in the Black Hills first. Thanksgiving is about the unity between pilgrims and the Wampanoag who banded together for protection from rival tribes.
Did you delete my comment buddy?
That's an interesting argument.
This is my first year I stopped all this thanksgiving nonsense..... Lord have mercy on me!
there is nothing quite like the combination of monotheism and greed for generating
death and destruction
Smart lady, taught me lots
I get it but it's the same during Halloween.
halloween is worse, but why do I not care? because this was CENTURIES AGO
Don't worry. The world will know soon who the land of the United States belong to. I just hope people are ready to accept it. To hear truth and to believe what was told is truth are two different actions. I'm telling you world, seek the truth and know it. So when it is revealed, it won't come as a surprise and you'll have enough time to make things right. The worst thing that can happen to any person is to believe in something your whole life, then to be told what you believed was true, turns out to be a lie. Stay safe everyone.
Does Canada have a similar story to their Thanksgiving?
Lmao (sorry for laughing) yes yes yeeees they do, and a history that follows to match, look up mass Graves at "residential schools" and then look up what residential school are, then let it set in that the last one closed in 1996...to give just one creepy quote from a proponent of the schools "kill the Indian to save the man"
As far as I know, no, not specific to Thanksgiving, but yes, Canada has a similarly long and ongoing history of colonization, stealing land, and genocide towards Indigenous people. Canadian Thanksgiving is a separate holiday from American Thanksgiving with a different origin. Canadian Thanksgiving was celebrated before the American pilgrims ever made it to the Americas and it was more closely linked to harvest festivals that were celebrated in Europe. That said, Canada still has a terrible history of treating Indigenous people unbelievably badly and we can continue to see this today in the lack of clean drinking water on many reserves, the inadequate healthcare options and food insecurity for those in northern and remote communities, the general racism in society, the effects of generational trauma, etc.
@@LH-xd8rw did you know that indigenous people have a history of treating indigenous people poorly?
@@jeremysmith9694 do you understand that territorial disputes amoung native nations is entirely different than a settler colonial genocide.... or your missing the point on purpose 👍 ok
@@chenzomutumbo9140 semantics
Well I need to ask, what’s wrong with thanksgiving as a holiday? I don’t think the video went into detail about that.
Nothing wrong with Thanksgiving. Just butt hurt people who can't take history or try to use a different part of history to upsurp its meaning. 1621 Thanksgiving happened. This lady and other MSM outlests are focusing in the 1637 massacre of the Parqout people. We are not celebrating that day. People just focus on trying to destroy a holiday that means alot to most people in the Unite States and in other countries.
We're can I get one of those t shirts?
When u hate the truth the heart rejects justice but when a person does a good deed his favor or hers is a blessing of the people tulsi 2020
It is the same in all countries the whites just walked into and took like Australia where I am.I am white and sometimes it's very embarrassing what our forefathers did with no regret apparently.!!!!..my thoughts.👍👍
Does any one celebrate thanks giving with these things in mind? I think not.
eaglesclaws8 elementary schools do
I know what I learned in school was what they wanted me to know and not to know.
That goes for the government, media, and churches.
History is written by the victors. So we downplayed everything, and made it all happy and cheery instead of the truth.
searched these vids up to see the truth about why we are celebrating colonists
same, can't wait to educate my conservative family
Who tf cares it’s about family and being together
@@MonkezNation you can celebrate it that way no one is stopping you, it’s just good to be educated on the reason it’s a thing
@@cara88888 Correction, you meant why we are celebrating racists? 🤷♂️
@@ScroogeMcDuck. same thing basically
I’m looking for a kid friendly version of this story. It’s important they understand the facts.
🙄
This is perfectly kid friendly.
What part is not kid friendly? People teach their kids to believe in a zombie carpenter or they will burn forever.... why can't you teach them their country is built at the expense of an indigenous population that was displaced?
Unless you mean something that will keep a young child's attention, in which case I may agree with you...
That's just candy coating authentic history and just as bad as "And the Natives taught the pilgrims how to grow corn :)"
Beating around the bush is also highly American.
That's disturbing. Sad history
Did anyone actually think Thanksgiving had happy origins? Its the same as anywhere in the world, there are conquerers and there are victims. The victors make the history and the holidays.
rlly like the idea of observing a national day of mourning instead of “thanksgiving”
Angry people cannot be thankful people, but they can also be sad people.
@@robertdouglas8895 ive been angry and thank ful many times. More than one emotion can happen at once my dude
@@leechgrl Keep working on your forgiveness and it will come to peace.
@@robertdouglas8895 what?
I agree with this wholeheartedly! It's sad 😕
Yes the way Thanksgiving is taught in school isn't 100% accurate but you shouldn't feel bad about celebrating Thanksgiving. I have a native American background and me and family celebrate the holiday every year. When we talk about genocide that didn't happen on the first Thanksgiving there actually was a 60 yr peace between the two peoples. The pilgrims had no intentions of stealing land and actually were planning to pay for land. Now as the first generation started to die tensions between the two started to grow as more and more English started to arrive. Yes the holiday does have a dark history but the core of the holiday is good. It's really about family sharing a meal which the best thing family can do. Also it's about two different peoples coming together and breaking bread. Even thought the peace was short it's still a special moment in history.
Then tell your friends to stop shaming people for celebrating there Mayflower ancestors survival because some people did bad things.
@@brittanyhayes1043 not my job.
@@brittanyhayes1043 Everyone has ancestors that did bad things, and every piece of livable land in the world has changed hands involuntarily many times. As if the native tribes didn't fight each other and take land from each other through violent means long before Europeans arrived.
@@lawv804 You are not understanding what I mean. White people through MSM are being shamed for the ancestors sins. They shouldn't have to be shamed. They are doing it through CRT in schools on children as a opressor/oppressed narrative.
@@brittanyhayes1043 Sorry about that. You're right, nobody should be shamed for their ancestors sins. We should all be born with a blank slate in our own lives. I can trace my own ancestry back to Jamestown; they endured tremendous hardship in order to survive, and I would not try to judge then for any of the choices they made.
I already thought that thanksgiving was a day of thanking God for everything and celebrating with a huge feast
😢😢😢 I never heard about this in school 🤔
Very well put and to the point!
Angry people cannot be thankful people. .
Welcome to america!!! Pass the stuffing
Can someone give me the french traduction??
Let’s all just be Thankful that we are not starving.
What political agenda would serve the pilgrim's by thanking the people who saved them from starvation? On top of that, 'the stolen land' was conquered 1700s by settlers and native Americans. You are not going to be able to unchanged any of that from the history of native Americans and the history of the United States.
She just wants to feel like she's doing something meaningful. She's not actually doing anything.
Number one rule of human society: all the land in the world is yours.
If you can keep it.
The natives ultimately could not.
This sucks.
Get over it.
May allah civilize europe soon
@@fwefhwe4232 you a troll? Because that in no way makes sense
Care to explain?
@@jer1014t2th You conquered their land,killed their parents and you don't feel Guilty?
@@akunlama89 They did not feel guilty in killing other tribes and trading food and fur for muskets and powder.
In my family we celebrate Thanksgiving as a Thanksgiving for all the blessings we've had in our lives throughout the year. It's also a time for family to come together that usually doesn't. We don't celebrate colonialism we don't hate on natives my kid's dad was a quarter is a quarter Native American. People can try to cancel it and that's fine but I'm still celebrating it with my family
what's missing in this video is a condensed version of the history. referencing the book doesnt feel that void
Truth hurts!!
The truth is documented by Edward Winslow and William Bradford. Liberal hatemongers are hurt by the truth because its humanizes white people the same way the WWI Christmas Truce humanizes Germans.
Hong Kong will fight-die for even the last remnants of their Founding🇬🇧Colonizers.
Exigent Colonizers Hong Kongers are Chinese, get over it!
@@asli9812
If China refuses Hong Kongs demands the entire FREE WORLD will boycott, divest, sanction, tariff, CCP🇨🇳PLA off the face of the Earth.
@@asli9812woah dude you hate freedom. Also that's false. Hong Kong is Britain's which does not make it apart of china.
@@asli9812 and if you're like oh no its next to china does that make every country in Europe owned by russia cause they are all next to it.
Hong Kong was a part of China. Britain took it by force. It is now a part of China again. Get over it.
Let’s also talk about the DAWs roll.
So sad I am sorry I just found out… I don’t appreciate being lied to
You are so beautiful and your video are insane i love you continue like that 🙏❤️❤️❤️
I'm 💯 with the idea a of teaching truth. But also there's a logical issue with her initial statement about teaching kids "that it's right and ok to just take anything"
Children are being taught a lie entirely. In order for children to believe it is right to just take everything, they would have to know the truth first. Catch my drift?
That's a reason why I don't really like Thanksgiving
Mmmmm. Turkey !
It was really hard for me this year learning the history and not wanting to celibate but feeling obligated to do stuff with family because they all come to my place and I don't just want to be stuck in my room while everyone eats. What I tried to do was treat it like any other family get together since I had to be there anyway. I had alot if anger tho and ended up having a conversation about it and then a few days later mom got mad I went off on a few rants about different things. So frustrating. Now I can only imagine what a native feels like having yt people constantly dismiss there feelings on the holiday must be horable
I agree I don’t celebrate it anymore it’s so sad to know what happened. I don’t care who else celebrates it they need to respect my feelings. If not that’s ok, I separate myself from this unapologetically. I’m thankful everyday for my food is what I tell them but I refuse to celebrate the horrific history of what happened to Native Americans. 😢
@@behindcloseddoorsministries same..I'm like maybe I'll eat with my ancestors n go out in nature 🥰.. Enjoy the day
Listen, it's ok to know your history and personally not agree with the holiday but if you are going to attend a family gathering, don't go on rants and bring down the entire mood. At the end of the day, your mother worked really hard to cook all the food for the gathering. Don't ruin it with your political agenda. You can disagree with Thanksgiving as a whole but if you are going to join in and grab a plate, then curb your attitude, be grateful for the meal and try to enjoy time with family. When you grow up, you don't have to celebrate it ever again but I guarantee you will miss celebrating with family.
Go with your conversations. Im Just learning about this truthfully and I'm 49 smh. I will no longer participate with evil history.
Some people sure like taking a good family holiday and ruining it. I have a family that I love and we look forward to getting together once a year to enjoy a fabulous turkey dinner 😋
y'all just brainwashed
@@kingkeyon-lo2oi Not brain washed 🙄 I have a family who loves me dearly and likes my cooking and wants to spend time with me. I don't think the OP, or y6iu, can say the same 🤔
There's Thanksgiving songs?
I'm sorry this happened to the Native Americans. This is a day l DO NOT celebrate.
I personally celebrate thanksgiving by giving thanks to God for what we have and we all know what really happen but its not gonna stop me from spending time with my family which its what really matters now about this holiday.
Keep being blind
Still celebrating thanksgiving Turkey anyone 🦃
And may you all have a happy Thanksgiving
Thankya
Well said..
in what ways could i practice honoring indigenous peoples on this day? i don’t have a lot of money to donate to any organizations and i’ll try my best to start conversations in my family, but other than that?
Educate your friends and family on the truth of thanksgiving day. Recognize us outside of this holiday. I think the best thing people can do at this point is acknowledge the truth, accept it, educate future generations while respecting the culture, the earth, and your fellow man.
Thanksgiving*
They have a holiday after thanksgiving, it's not a national holiday though.
Gather on Thanksgiving with those you love and be thankful you were born and raised in the greatest republic that ever graced the surface of this planet.
THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY INTERESTING. IT JUST WOKE MY MIND UP AND TAUGHT ME SOMETHING. EVERYTHING TODAY IS PLASTIC.
Must be nice to have a family to spend it with . Past 9 years I've spent it alone.
DruidsCalling same here!
You guys are not alone
Probably the insufferable edge and attention seeking
Listen, I understand the true history of Thanksgiving however, I feel Thanksgiving has morphed into a holiday about reuniting with family, sharing a meal together and giving thanks to the lord for what we have along with sharing what we are grateful for. It's also an excuse for me to make a giant turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, collard greens, gammon, mac and cheese and pumpkin pie.
They most definitely taught me this in highschool and Christopher Columbus that why I always say why we celebrate certain days
You didn’t go to “high school”
I agree with everything said except that at the end she made reference to Columbus... Columbus never set foot in north america...
But thanx to him America was “discovered “
@@Gleyi07 not really, north america was not "discovered" by Columbus, the native Americans were already tradeing and colonizing with the Moors. The Moors traveled to North America way before Columbus or any European. The reason is because the Moors were master shipbuilders and travellers. If it wasn't for Morocco conquering Spain for nearly a thousand years the Spanish Armada would have never amounted to what it is known to be throughout history. The Spaniards actually learned how to build ships from the Moors as well as adopting their culture religion government and building techniques
@@jahgod720 no way the moors taught Europeans how to do all that wow no joke when I say this but I’m learning more and more about poc everyday on yt please tell me ur sources I want to learn more no cap 😁👍
@@jahgod720 it just goes to show everyone the world didn’t need europe but europe needed the world
Would anyone care to, without being rude, explain to me why I should pay for the mistake of my ancestor? I'm genuinely curious what supports that point of view and that is part of the reason I watched this video.
A child does not bear the sins of his father.
You should not pay for their mistakes. But you also shouldn't celebrate them.
you're not "paying" for anything, just crying. just don't celebrate the holiday. it is not that difficult.
Well its Karma you reap what you sow cant you understand that
You shouldn't. It makes no sense. You had nothing to do with it. They're just whining about the past to make themselves feel important.
And I also want to say this land is your land just as much as it is mine. The media would have you think we're all insanely divided but in all honesty we're really not. At least rational people that is..
coexistence is always an opportunity for enemies to stab us in the back.
I agree! I have native blood proven through 23 and me. However, every nation in the world has the right. This is a defeated nation and it the only not one those that were stolen. Consider Africa and Israel. It was defeated. A part of history.
Undeniable facts. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The Indian Tribes were killing one another before the "White Man" got here,..if not for the "White Man" making the United States what it is today with the good and the bad you would have never taken that picture drinking far left nut job tears,... In fact the whole world would be a lot different,..The Butterfly Effect...don't worry China is looking to take over and turning us all into slaves so you have that to look forward to.
Maybe school didnt teach me this but now i know what really happened. I believe that we should change thanksgiving. I love the idea but the whole thing is messed up- i hope that theres some way we can change it to be respectful, to just be a day of family time and not have the shadow of the terrible things done looming over it-
It already is about family and unity. It’s also possible to still recognize the bad things that happened without it being negative.
@@chrissanderson6125 😲😲😲😲😲
What country do you live in, because I live in the United States of America, and it already is day of gathering with those you love and being thankful for that.
Sad things is that all native Americans went raiding others.
Even the most peaceful ones might have done maybe every other year.
When you go back to anthropology the human species is cruel.
We do not see those outside of our groups as human.
Children, women, men are murdered.
There where a few peaceful hunter-gatherers in the world but those where the ones who fled to inhospitable lands from other tribes about to go extinct.
helthy
99.9% have no idea why we celebrate this holiday. I don't really blame them because I know a lot of them see it as a "get together" holiday and it works. But they don't know the history. Families get together and have a meal and converse, etc. But they really can't answer the why we have this holiday. Since I know what happened, I don't see it this way. I feel a bit depressed when it does come around. Thanksgiving and Colombus Day are ridiculous holidays we celebrate. They really should reconsider changing these holidays to something else...perhaps mourning.