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Thanksgiving: A Native American View
Thursday, January 6th, 2011Thanksgiving – Understanding The Holiday
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Thanks to most people means the family and friends and Turkey, or maybe beer and football. Many do not know or even care about significence holidays. Back in 1600 a group of people who were members of the English Separatist Church (Puritan’s) in England, fled from their land to escape religious persecution. He boarded a ship and sailed to Holland in the Netherlands. In Holland the people enjoyed a short period of time free from religious persecution they faced back in England, but soon became frustrated with the morals of the Dutch peoples bad and what they considered sinful lifestyle.
You still need a better way of life, the Separatists made a deal with a limited liability company in London to finance a trip to America on a ship called Mayflower. There were others in England who were not separatists, in fact most that has made the trip on the Mayflower were not.
The group arrived in America December 11, 1620 and began to land in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The winter season’s first meeting with pilgrims in the United States has been horrible. With the extreme cold and snowstorms, which lost 46 of the 102 originals that came with the Mayflower. But the spring and summer of next year has been wonderful with pleasant days and Nice, and most pilgrims stay healthy. The local Indians showed them how and where to hunt and trap for the game available, and shared their secrets in the cultivation and conservation of native cultures. The harvest of 1621 was very generous and pilgrims along with the local Indians, who had helped them survive their first year, decided to have a big party to celebrate and give thanks.
The party or as commonly called “The First Thanksgiving took place probably outdoor tables and benches handmade, most people sat on blankets on the floor while eating, because the settlers are not aware that I have a building large enough to accommodate everyone.
In an original letter from a member of the colony, Edward Winslow, here is the real account of the first celebration of Thanksgiving:
“Our harvest was obtained, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we can rejoice together after a special way, after harvesting the fruits of our work. The four deaths in one day the chicken over, and with little help beside, served the company almost a week. at which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and include mostly king Massasoit, with some ninety men, during entertaining and held three days, and went out and killed five deer, which led to the planting and as our governor and the captain and others. And although not always as abundant as it was this time with us, but God’s goodness We are so far from the need we often share our fate. ”
In a handwritten letter can be seen that an Indian chief or the king and 90 (total 91 from India) who were invited as guests attended the event along with the pilgrims, and the feast or celebration lasted three days. The celebration or feast was not repeated until 1623, when during a severe drought all people gathered and prayed for rain. The next day, a steady rain was long and Bradford proclaimed another day the Governor of Thanksgiving, and again the pilgrims or “settlers invited their Indian friends to celebrate.
The next Thanksgiving celebration did not occur until 1676, when the Governing Council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting on the best way to celebrate and give thanks for the good fortune of their community had experienced. By voting, they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of Thanksgiving.
Other dates that were important for the feast of Thanksgiving was in October 1777, when there was a Thanksgiving feast was celebrated by the 13 colonies had established. In 1789, George Washington proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving, and after a campaign of letter writing to the presidents and governors in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as National Day of Thanksgiving. The date was changed a few times, but finally in 1941 was approved by Congress as a holiday, the fourth Thursday of November, where it remains today.
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Learn About The Interesting Thanksgiving Trivia’s You Could Share With Your Guests
Friday, July 16th, 2010Usually, when Thanksgiving than what first comes to mind are the delicious cakes and other dishes and spectacular roast turkey.
Well, food is an important part of his party, but not the only component of the Thanksgiving season. Thanksgiving is really a great opportunity for us to celebrate with joy and thank our creator, along with family and friends for the blessings we have received so far.
Here are some Thanksgiving trivia you’d like to share during your vacation.
1) Sarah Hale, editor of a women’s magazine, is credited with having declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, in writing to Congress for many years.
February) The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621. It was also told that his thanksgiving was a total of three days.
3) Original name / word for pilgrims, in fact the Puritans.
4) Fork Turkey is considered a lucky charm to grasp what before anyone else gets them. Have fun looking!
5) Before being captured and sold, cranberry must bounce at least four times before is not considered too old.
6) The food long before astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren eaten on the moon was a roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
7) 102 pilgrims said to have been aboard the Mayflower, who came to America (New World).
is the name of the ship date of dispatch of the ship Mayflower before landing in American Puritan leader.
9) Abraham Lincoln was the president who made a national holiday of Thanksgiving in the U.S. and before he said, Thanksgiving is celebrated whenever the governor of a state, he said.
10) Thanksgiving is always celebrated on Thursday because it was the week of half the Puritans daily prayers.
11) pumpkin pie has not been delivered during the first Thanksgiving celebrations in 1620, because the ovens were not invented yet at that time.
12) Approval to conduct the Thanksgiving table ate with their hands, spitting on the floor, pulling the bones into the heart after eating.
13) Not all were traveling in the New World in solving some of these travelers were out to get skins and wood to postpone England.
14) Pilgrims to the New World through the Mayflower actually spent 66 days at sea before reaching land again. This is what it was before you travel.
15) In October 1777, George Washington declared Thanksgiving All “Cologne, because it felt better than his victory over Sarasota.
Thanksgiving is more than a great meal. It is time for family and friends to meet again in a festive mood to appreciate all the blessings given and simply enjoy the company of really good people will have made a difference in your life. So have a happy thanksgiving
Fun & Interesting Thanksgiving Facts
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Thanksgiving is a holiday rooted in rich history. Here are some very funny and interesting facts to share Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving. * Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. * Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada. * The Pilgrims came to North America in December 1620. * The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to reach North America. * Pilgrims boarded the ship, which was known by the name of ‘Mayflower’. * The Wampanoag Indians were the ones who taught the Pilgrims to cultivate the land. * The drink that the Puritans brought with them on the Mayflower was the beer. * With the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast. Day is celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts. * Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford organized Thanksgiving and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians also at the party. * The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days. * In celebration of the first harvest with the Pilgrims and Native Americans, “chicken” was eaten. Although this could have been Turkey, is more likely to have been geese and ducks. * A mature turkey has 3,500 feathers. Turkey feathers were used by Native Americans to stabilize arrows. * Turkeys have lived in North America by 10 million years * There was no milk, cheese, bread, butter and pumpkin pie at the original Thanksgiving feast. * The cranberry has its name because the pink flowers on the plant as a crane’s head and neck. Craneberry The name stuck, becoming blueberries. * Ben Franklin liked it so much that Turkey wanted to be the official bird of the United States. * A male turkey is called (Tom). The female is called (hen). Children are called broilers. * Only male (Tom) turkeys gobble. Females (hens) make a shot. The famous Swallow is actually a mating call of the season. * A tom gobble can be heard a mile away. * A hen lays about 115 eggs per month, which lasts about 28 days to hatch. * Turkeys are known to spend the night in the trees! * Domestic turkeys can not fly. Wild Turkeys, however, can run 20 mph and fly up to 55 miles per hour. * Turkeys can drown if you look for when it rains! * A group of turkeys is called a flock. * Today more than 670 million turkeys are consumed on Thanksgiving. * A turkey of 16 weeks of age is called a fryer. Five to seven months old is called roast turkey. * The largest was Turkey’s record of 86 pounds. * The average person consumes 4500 calories on Thanksgiving Day.
What Was the Very First Thanksgiving Like?
Thursday, January 7th, 2010In the early 1600s, a group of English people separated themselves from the Church of England. At that time, it was against the law for English citizens not to attend church services. Facing persecution at worst and ridicule at best, the group of Separatists fled to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, they were free to worship as they chose, but they faced other problems. They began to blend in with the Dutch people and they felt that their new religion faced extinction if they stayed in Holland.
There had been several voyages by English settlers and explorers to the New World across the sea. There had even been a colony successfully planted in the area known as Virginia. The Separatists decided that the only way that they could worship and preserve their religion was to travel to the New Land and begin their own colony. They began plans for the voyage in 1617 and set sail for the New World in 1620.
They sailed for sixty-five days on a boat called the Mayflower and endured at least one terrible storm. There was talk of turning back, but they continued, and when they reached the New World, only one person had died during the trip.
When the voyage began, there were 120 people aboard the boat, only some of them Separatists. There were arguments between the two groups and the Separatists referred to themselves as “saints” and to the others as “strangers”. By the time they landed in Massachusetts, they had banded together and called themselves “Pilgrims”.
It is a good thing that the Saints and the Strangers decided to work together, because that first winter was brutal and killed more than half of them. By March, only forty-seven of the original 120 were still alive. The whole group had become so sick that only a handful of people were credited for keeping the survivors alive. If they had remained divided, it is likely that all of them would have died.
After the hard winter, the Pilgrims went to work. They made friends with the Native American Indians of the area. Two of whom already knew English: Samoset and Squanto. These two, particularly Squanto, provided vital help, In fact, the Pilgrims probably wouldn’t have survived without them. The most important thing Squanto taught the Pilgrims was how to farm corn, using fish as fertilizer.
After the Pilgrims harvested their crops in October, they were very thankful. They had enough of everything to help them survive the coming winter. To celebrate the harvest and to thank the Indians who had helped them, the Pilgrims threw a big party. They invited Squanto and his chief, Massasoit to the celebration. About ninety other natives joined them. The Pilgrims and Indians feasted and celebrated for three days. They played games, ate, danced, played music, and ate some more. It is that celebration that we think of as the first Thanksgiving.
There is, however, a little more to the story. The next fall the harvest was not nearly as good, and there was no celebration. The next year was even worse. The summer was hot and dry, and all of the crops were dying. The governor of the colony ordered the Pilgrims to fast and to pray, and eventually the rain came. To thank God for the rain, a day of thanksgiving was set aside. This day was not the rowdy feast and celebration of two years prior, instead it was a somber time of prayer.
Today, with our parades, football games and turkey dinners, our modern Thanksgiving more closely resembles the 1621 celebration than it does the 1623 holiday.
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