Please remember our Native American brothers on this day. To them it isnt a day of thanksgiving but one of mourning. Lies My Teacher Told Me - Thanksgiving and Native Americans The Thanksgiving myth is that the Pilgrims settled the United States in 1620. They had to fight off indians repeatedly. Few Americans know that one-third of the United States, from San Francisco to Arkansas to Natchez to Florida, has been Spanish longer than it has been American, and that Hispanic Americans lived here before the first ancestor of the Daughters of the American Revolution ever left England. British and French fisherman, landing in Massachusetts for fresh water and supplies in 1617, brought the plague to the American indians. Within three years the plague wiped out between 90 percent and 96 percent of the inhabitants of coastal New England... Unable to cope with so many corpses, the survivors abandoned their villages. What the Pilgrims found were settled farms, with the crops already planted and growing, deserted by Indians fleeing the plague. The Pilgrims found it easy to infer that God was on their side. John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, called the plague Miraculous. These epidemcs probably constituted the most important geopolitical event of the early seventeenth century. Their net result was that the British, for their first fifty years in New England, would face no real Indian challenge. The plagues continued west, racing in advance of the line of culture contact... Disease played the same crucial role in Mexico and Peru as it did in Massachusetts... When the Spanish marched into Tenochtitlan [now Mexico City], there were so many bodies [dead from the plague] that they had to walk on them. ..the population of the Americas [was] one hundred million in 1492.. Europe had only about seventy million people when Columbus set forth. The Europeans advantages in military and social technology might have enabled them to dominate the Americas.. but not to settle the hemisphere. For that, the plague was required. .. the land was, in reality, not a virgin wilderness, but recently widowed. We also tend, in favor of the Pilgrims, to ignore Jamestown which was settled first. Historians could hardly tout Virginia... The Virginians relations with the Indians were particularly unsavory...the early Virginians engaged in bickering, sloth, even cannibalism. They spent their early days digging random holes in the ground, haplessly looking for gold instead of planting crops. Soon they were starving and digging up putrid Indian corpses to eat or renting themselves out to Indian families as servants. ..the Pilgrims hardly started from scratch in a wilderness. Throughout southern New England, Native Americans had repeatedly burned the underbrush, creating a parklike environment... They chose Plymouth because of its beautiful cleared fields, recently planted in corn, and its useful harbor and brook of fresh water. It was a lovely site for a town. Indeed, until the plaque, it had been a town... One of the first things the Pilgrims did was go through the town, looting the possessions of the Indians. ..the Pilgrims continued to rob graves for years. So you see for many of us the lies our teachers told us about Thanksgiving belie the human tragedy that came before and continued long after. Our educators lie to us by allowing the propagation of history that perpetuate the lies. Our government in order to make our nation look better in the eyes of the rest of the world perpetuate the lies by not forcing the true History to be taught in school. Instead we get fed watered down politically correct crap. The term Lies My Teacher Told Me is from a book written in 1995 , its a really good read and eye opener for those who are curious. After all what else have you been mistaught and mislead about by our education system?
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:21:07 +0000