Short Story of Thanksgiving. In 1637 near present day Groton, - TopicsExpress



          

Short Story of Thanksgiving. In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared A Day Of Thanksgiving because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered. After that the GENOCIDE took its place, it started. Milions of native americans killed, raped, sold in slavery....
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:33:56 +0000

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