Why is Thanksgiving actually a "mourning day"?

This story is quite interesting, much like the story of a farmer and a snake in China. Let me tell you what happened.

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 religious persecution. 1In September, 620, they boarded the sailboat may flower, sailed to the "New World" America just discovered by Columbus, and arrived at Plymouth Port in the United States on February 26th, 65438. In the winter at the turn of 1620 and 162 1, only 50 Puritans survived in 102 because of the lack of fresh fruits and vegetables, scurvy, hunger and cold. Of course, this voyage is famous in history because of 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 cold winter now, and they come to a strange place, lacking clothes and food, and the harsh environment threatens their lives. At this critical moment, the local Wampanoag Indians generously took out the corn and potatoes stored for the winter and gave them the wild ducks and turkeys they 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 indigenous people to celebrate this festival to thank their gifts. This is the origin of the original Thanksgiving.

At first, there was no fixed date for Thanksgiving Day, which was decided temporarily by American states. 1789, President Washington officially stipulated165438+1October 26th as the Thanksgiving Day celebrated throughout the 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 year as Thanksgiving Day.

Here you will know that Thanksgiving Day should actually be the anniversary when British colonists thanked the kind Indians for their help when they first arrived in America. It was a day to celebrate gratitude, but it didn't last long. This Thanksgiving Day became the end of the Indians.

"Mourning Day" in India

In the first hundred years, the relationship between European immigrants and Indians was generally peaceful. Europeans don't have enough numbers and strength to plunder Indians, and Indians never take the initiative to attack this group of outsiders. However, with the continuous increase of immigrants, the strength contrast between the two sides is becoming more and more disparity, and peace no longer exists.

When there are more colonists, there will be war, and the war between Indians and colonists will break out. 1830, the American Congress passed the Indian Migration 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. Tribes in the south are facing double pressure from the state government and the federal government. Most tribes were unable to resist, so they had to cede their land, get some symbolic reparations, and then set off 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. Indians, as one of several human species, are basically extinct as a whole. It is estimated that when Columbus arrived in the New World, Indians exceeded100000. 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 when describing American history: "It was Columbus who initiated this cruel policy, and later people inherited his practice, resulting in genocide."

European immigrants who participated in the massacre at that time thanked God for giving them great help and enabling them to win quickly. So in that year, 1637, john winthrop, then governor of Massachusetts, said: This day should be a day to celebrate, and thank God for letting them conquer the Pecots. This is the American Thanksgiving Day.

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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 this desolate land in the western United States in order to survive. This is the truth of history, similar to China's "The Farmer and the Snake" story.

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 China's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day, this is their "mourning day", and all Indians mourn for their murdered compatriots on this day.

? Now the Indians in northern Mexico have not changed their religion for more than 400 years. They still live on the so-called reservation. They still don't recognize the American government, and they don't pay taxes to it, let alone celebrate Thanksgiving. ?

Why is Britain now in cahoots with the United States in the international community? Because the so-called "Americans" are descendants of British colonists and are fundamentally a family. Otherwise, why can the United States get the support of most European countries such as Britain? This is the root cause, not to mention the invasion of the land of the Native American Indians, and the driving of people into the wilderness of the western United States (understand what the western United States is like), and almost all of them are eliminated. Come on, even the Indians in the United States now have no place but to survive, which is why Americans like to invade and plunder small and weak countries. They are colonists, greed and shameless are their nature, and even the Indians who helped them can be brutally killed and driven away, let alone other countries. Nowadays, white Americans have never been the masters of the American continent, occupying other people's territories and slaughtering local ethnic groups. This is what westerners do.