November 28, 2005
Post-Thanksgiving Neeners
Lintenfiniel Jen points out that the real First Thanksgiving actually took place in the great Commonwealth of Virginia two years before those uptight Yankee Puritans got around to it.
As I was explaining to the eldest Llama-ette the other day, the reasons Plymouth gets all the credit are a) Northern cultural dominance after the Civil War and b) the fact that the Martins Hundred settlers were all massacred by the Indians shortly after its establishment and largely forgotten.
Posted by Robert at November 28, 2005 08:50 AM | TrackBackNot exactly a "feel-good" story, with our native American friends as the heroes, is it?
Posted by: The Colossus at November 28, 2005 11:26 AMYeah, it's much more spiritually uplifting the other way.
Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at November 28, 2005 12:44 PMA few thousand vs more than 10 million. Not heros any more than you or I, but deserving of life not slaughter.
Posted by: LB buddy at November 28, 2005 01:43 PMI didn't mean to imply that the Native Americans were the (ironic) "heroes" in the Virginia version. I meant that they were the (actual) heroes in the Plymouth version. Sorry for my inept phrasing.
I wasn't attacking the Native Americans. They certainly got more than they bargained for in dealing with the Euros.
Posted by: The Colossus at November 28, 2005 03:26 PMMy apologies too for assuming the bad interpretation. I blame it on Steve...
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