Happy The Day Our Greedy Ass Forefathers Raped and Pilaged the REal Americans DAy!
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Think of the indian today.
yea, the same one crying by the side of the road in the 70's, yea that one. pollution of our minds.
lets rewrite the history books for that sad old indian man stan...
and so it goes
he still crys man
we didn't give no hand
we just took and stole his land!
Hope your favorite team wins in football and lets hope they aren't named...
THE INDIANS!!!
yea, the same one crying by the side of the road in the 70's, yea that one. pollution of our minds.
lets rewrite the history books for that sad old indian man stan...
and so it goes
he still crys man
we didn't give no hand
we just took and stole his land!
Hope your favorite team wins in football and lets hope they aren't named...
THE INDIANS!!!
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"Thanksgiveing is a bullshit holloday. We celibate the one good momet we had with the native Americans. It's like a date rapeist saying, 'lets focus on the dinner we had before the rape'."
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LMAO
Yea, we don't want to focus on the
negative,
it's up,..,,.. UP WITH PEOPLE
OF WHITE PERSUASION DAY!
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howling of the wind
the screams
of my ancestors
as they look
down from the
heavens
at the devastation
brought to their
tribal lands
the grounds
that soaked their
blood
as they lie dying
from trying to defend
their plains
raped and pillaged
to satisfy someones greed
i hear in the
chimes that hang
outside my kitchen door
the singing of my ancestors
as they look down
from the heavens
and tell me it's ok
where they are
there are no
whitemen
raping tribal plains
to satisfy their greed
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Find Thanksgiving misstates heritage
Judy Nichols
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 27, 2003 12:00 AM
In the past, when the days grew shorter, Mary Thomas' grandfather would climb Table Top Mountain east of Casa Grande to see which way his shadow fell at sunrise.
When it fell to the northwest, it signaled harvest time, a time to give thanks for the earth's bounty.
"It was a natural time for a big feast," said Thomas, lieutenant governor of the Gila River Indian Community.
Native Americans celebrated harvest feasts for hundreds of years before the meal in 1621 was called Thanksgiving and chosen as a symbol of the Pilgrims' survival in the New World.
But for many, the holiday is a sanitized misrepresentation of the conflicted relationship between Europeans and the indigenous people of the Americas.
"It's presented as the beginning of a good relationship, that the good will between the two is continuing and has always continued," said Bo Colbert, a Muskogee Creek Indian from the southeastern United States.
"As we now know that's not completely accurate," said Colbert, who teaches in the American Indian Studies Program at Arizona State University.
Many Native Americans believe the caricature Indian in feather headdress used to represent the holiday stereotypes Indians. They say school curriculums teach the story of Squanto, who taught the Pilgrims to grow corn, out of context, without discussing the later devastation of the Native American population and taking of their land.
Myth debunked
At the Plimoth Plantation, a museum in Massachusetts, one of the exhibits debunks myths about the first Thanksgiving, like the familiar paintings that show a large banquet surrounded by many Pilgrims and a handful of natives. In reality, there were 52 Pilgrims, about half children, and more than 90 Wampanoag men.
The myths were part of the teaching when Colbert was growing up in the South.
He was the only Indian in his elementary school class and so was picked to color the Indian and the teepee in the class mural showing the Indian greeting the Pilgrim. His tribe did not build teepees.
"My thinking at the time was that it was the way White people see Indians on TV," he said.
"It was a history that was not about me or who I've been taught that I am."
Nothing showed how Colbert's family would make sofki, his favorite dish, boiling corn all night in big iron pots over wood fires, stirring in the liquid from ashes from the fire.
Nothing talks about the "other part of the story," said Carol Lujan, a Navajo and head of the Indian Studies program at ASU.
"There's nothing about what happened to the Indians after that, how when they were no longer needed, they were exterminated, that various types of genocide were condoned," she said.
Thomas, of the Gila River Indian Community, said they have asked the state Legislature to mandate textbooks include the true history.
"Children need to learn about the usurpation of the lands," Thomas said.
"They need to know about the terrible treatment, how women's breasts were cut off and used as pouches, how natives were kidnapped and made to be slaves, how the blankets they were given were infested with smallpox. They need to learn about the attitude that if you got rid of the Indians, they wouldn't be such a nuisance, and how 100 million Native Americans were killed."
Susan Miller, a member of the Seminole Nation and an ASU professor, said her parents were very historically conscious and always carefully framed Thanksgiving in its historical context.
But school was a different matter. "I didn't appreciate being used as an emblem, part of the celebration of somebody else's extraction of my nation's land and resource," she said.
"It's very insulting to be trotted out with the ghosts and goblins and pirates at Halloween and to be pinned up on the bulletin board with turkeys at Thanksgiving."
When her own daughter was in school, Miller used to confront her teachers about the issue.
"I would ask, 'Why are you using Indians as an emblem of Thanksgiving? Have you taught about Native Americans at other times of the year? Why are you making headdresses with turkey feathers? Do you understand the significance of headdresses? Do you understand that Indians in this area didn't even wear clothing like that? What do you know about the life of the indigenous people who have lived here for 1,000 years?"
Now the torch has passed to her own daughter.
"She's started to call it Thankstaking and is dealing with her employer about the representation of Indians in her place of employment."
This year at her harvest dinner, Miller will give a prayer and speech about the decolonization of the Seminole Nation.
"And we will give thanks that the people of the Gila River, here where we live, have just regained recognition of their rights of the Gila River, a relationship they have had for thousands of years," Miller said, referring to recent water settlements that give the Gila River Indian Community more of Arizona's water allocations.
Will give thanks
Thomas will give thanks, too.
This year, when she eats her favorite dish of chili stew on mashed potatoes, she will remember the adobe house with a dirt floor where her family would roast turkey pieces in a stove too small to fit the whole bird.
She will give thanks for the tribe's re-establishment of their agricultural heritage, with farms now growing oranges, lemons, grapefruits, cotton, wheat, barley, olives and native beans.
She will be thankful they are preparing more fields for the arrival of water from the new settlement, which still must be approved by Congress.
And she will remember the history of the river, the tribe's elaborate canal system, and extensive agriculture that made them providers for tribes throughout the region.
"We had an abundance, and we would store things like pumpkin squash in handmade baskets that were tall like big huge vases," she said.
"We would invite different tribes, like the Tohono O'odham, the Ak Chin, and the Salt River, to feast with us."
"Before Thanksgiving came to this country we had a tradition of being thankful for the abundance, for the water, the rains, the good weather, the sun itself."
Reach the reporter at judy.nichols@arizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-8577.