From: threejaguar-AT-yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:13:21 -0800
Subject: Fw: [v-nv-mobilize] The Great Thanksgiving Hoax


On 19 Nov 01, at 17:51, heather wrote:

( snippage )

> > The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
> > by Richard J. Marbury
> >
> > Each year at this time school children all over
> > America are taught the
> > official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio,
> > TV, and magazines
> > devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all
> > very colorful
> > and fascinating.
> >
> > It is also very deceiving. This official story is
> > nothing like what
> > really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and
> > sanitized
> > collection of half-truths which divert attention away
> > from
> > Thanksgiving's real meaning.

Thanksgiving's real meaning is that when the colonists fired the 
English Nobleman sent to run their lives for them, they suddenly 
stopped starving to death.

The colonists at Roanoke had an even better solution...the second 
their Crown appointed supervisor took a junket back to England,  
they defected to the local tribes en-mass. And they probably had a 
significant lifespan and quality of life increase as a result.

The women were definitely treated better by the local tribes. No 
witchburnings, and some tribes were actually matriarchal. Women 
defecting to the natives was a major headache for male colonists... 
there were many stories of women who would run back to their 
tribe after being "rescued".

Heh.

Regards,

Kristopher K. Barrett

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