The first thing Myles Standish and the Mayflower men did was to dig up 14 bushels of buried corn. The stolen corn — found stashed with skeletons and sundry items — became part of the Pilgrims’ first planting.
When the Massachusett people traded “their bare Indian commons for the plenty of England’s fuller diet, it is so contrary to their stomachs that death or a desperate sickness immediately accrues."
Today, the USDA provides food to low-income reservation households through the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. Available “commodity foods” include frozen and canned meats, canned fruits and vegetables, pasta, cereal, cheese, evaporated milk, wheat flour, crackers, beans and peanut butter.
The reliance on government provisions led to widespread health problems. The Department of Health and Human Services reports that American Indian and Alaska Natives are more than twice as likely as whites of a similar age to have diabetes.
Blocks of “government cheese” took up residence in reservation kitchens, and indigenous North American bodies suffered as a result.
Medical researchers discovered that lactase deficiency was present in 66 percent of their American Indian subjects The associated gut distress can lead to vitamin malabsorption and contributes to malnutrition.
Without ‘Indians’ Europeans would never have survived here. In repayment they were [are] robbed, shot, poisoned, and starved.
Thanksgiving:David J.SilvermanThis Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
The Myths:One is that history doesn’t begin for Native people until Europeans arrive. People had been in the Americas for least 12,000 years and according to some Native traditions, since the beginning of time. And having history start with the English is a way of dismissing all that. The second is that the arrival of the Mayflower is some kind of first-contact episode. It’s not
It (the dinner) gained purchase in the late 19th century, when there was an enormous amount of anxiety and agitation over immigration. The white Protestant stock of the United States was widely unhappy about the influx of European Catholics and Jews, and wanted to assert its cultural authority over these newcomers.
In that short period of time the white people have developed their xenophobia: no Catholics. No Jews.
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
…Wampanoag adults have memories of being a kid during the Thanksgiving season, sitting in school, feeling invisible and having to wade through the nonsense that teachers were shoveling their way. They felt like their people’s history as they understood it was being misrepresented. They felt that not only their classes, but society in general was making light of historical trauma which weighs around their neck like a millstone. Those stories really resonated with me.
hermit48 over 4 years ago
Too funny!
brwydave Premium Member over 4 years ago
Don’t get in the way of a hungry Pilgrim.
mourdac Premium Member over 4 years ago
The guests who took over the house and evicted the original inhabitants.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 4 years ago
Sadly accurate.
Odon Premium Member over 4 years ago
“First they come for your turkeys….”
• Thomas over 4 years ago
The first thing Myles Standish and the Mayflower men did was to dig up 14 bushels of buried corn. The stolen corn — found stashed with skeletons and sundry items — became part of the Pilgrims’ first planting.
When the Massachusett people traded “their bare Indian commons for the plenty of England’s fuller diet, it is so contrary to their stomachs that death or a desperate sickness immediately accrues."
Today, the USDA provides food to low-income reservation households through the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. Available “commodity foods” include frozen and canned meats, canned fruits and vegetables, pasta, cereal, cheese, evaporated milk, wheat flour, crackers, beans and peanut butter.
The reliance on government provisions led to widespread health problems. The Department of Health and Human Services reports that American Indian and Alaska Natives are more than twice as likely as whites of a similar age to have diabetes.
Blocks of “government cheese” took up residence in reservation kitchens, and indigenous North American bodies suffered as a result.
Medical researchers discovered that lactase deficiency was present in 66 percent of their American Indian subjects The associated gut distress can lead to vitamin malabsorption and contributes to malnutrition.
Without ‘Indians’ Europeans would never have survived here. In repayment they were [are] robbed, shot, poisoned, and starved.
Happy Thanksgiving.
William Bednar Premium Member over 4 years ago
“Hurry Maud”, says the guy, “Gotta get out of here before the locals find out we stole their turkey.”.
Fiona D Premium Member over 4 years ago
Wow. I didn’t know there was a roadsign for genocide. . .
cageywayne over 4 years ago
Thanksgiving:David J.SilvermanThis Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
The Myths:One is that history doesn’t begin for Native people until Europeans arrive. People had been in the Americas for least 12,000 years and according to some Native traditions, since the beginning of time. And having history start with the English is a way of dismissing all that. The second is that the arrival of the Mayflower is some kind of first-contact episode. It’s not
It (the dinner) gained purchase in the late 19th century, when there was an enormous amount of anxiety and agitation over immigration. The white Protestant stock of the United States was widely unhappy about the influx of European Catholics and Jews, and wanted to assert its cultural authority over these newcomers.
In that short period of time the white people have developed their xenophobia: no Catholics. No Jews.
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
…Wampanoag adults have memories of being a kid during the Thanksgiving season, sitting in school, feeling invisible and having to wade through the nonsense that teachers were shoveling their way. They felt like their people’s history as they understood it was being misrepresented. They felt that not only their classes, but society in general was making light of historical trauma which weighs around their neck like a millstone. Those stories really resonated with me.