[kj] ot - giving thanks

[Astrid Pretterhofer]

> I guess the celebartion lost its original character and meaning later on.
> ..
> Just president GW Bush decided to go to the very roots of it and celebrat
> ed thanksgiving in Iraq.-)


yes, and even though he still has no mercy on the human beings, he's
pardoning a turkey!

Astrid.

 
> Pavel
> 
> 
> ----- Původní zpráva -----
> Od: fluw <fluwdot@earthlink.net>
> Datum: pátek, 28. listopadu 2003 v 2:44 dop
> Předmět: [kj] ot - giving thanks
> 
> > The first official Thanksgiving wasn't a 
> 
> > festive gathering of Indians
> > and Pilgrims, but rather a celebration of 
> 
> > the massacre of 700 Pequot
> > men, women and children, an anthropologist 
> 
> > says. Due to age and illness
> > his voice cracks as he talks about the 
> 
> > holiday, but William B. Newell,
> > 84, talks with force as he discusses 
> 
> > Thanksgiving. Newell, a Penobscot,
> > has degrees from two universities, and was 
> 
> > the former chairman of the
> > anthropology department at the University of 
> 
> > Connecticut.
> > "Thanksgiving Day was first officially 
> 
> > proclaimed by the Governor of the
> > Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 to 
> 
> > commemorate the massacre of 700 men, 
> 
> > women and children who were celebrating 
> 
> > their annual green corn
> > dance-Thanksgiving Day to them-in their own 
> 
> > house," Newell said.
> > 
> 
> > "Gathered in this place of meeting they were 
> 
> > attacked by mercenaries and
> > Dutch and English. The Indians were ordered 
> 
> > from the building and as
> > they came forth they were shot down. The 
> 
> > rest were burned alive in the
> > building," he said.
> > 
> 
> > Newell based his research on studies of 
> 
> > Holland Documents and the 13
> > volume Colonial Documentary History, both 
> 
> > thick sets of letters and
> > reports from colonial officials to their 
> 
> > superiors and the king in
> > England, and the private papers of Sir 
> 
> > William Johnson, British Indian
> > agent for the New York colony for 30 years 
> 
> > in the mid-1600s.
> > 
> 
> > "My research is authentic because it is 
> 
> > documentary," Newell said. "You
> > can't get anything more accurate than that 
> 
> > because it is first hand. It
> > is not hearsay."
> > 
> 
> > Newell said the next 100 Thanksgivings 
> 
> > commemorated the killing of the
> > Indians at what is now Groton, Ct. [home of 
> 
> > a nuclear submarine base]
> > rather than a celebration with them. He said 
> 
> > the image of Indians and
> > Pilgrims sitting around a large table to 
> 
> > celebrate Thanksgiving Day was
> > "fictitious" although Indians did share food 
> 
> > with the first settlers. 
> 
> > 
> 
> > -------------
> > as W makes a stop in iraq today, it is good 
> 
> > to see the tradition is reaching new horizons
> 
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