i'm the party-pooper

[bone_dust]

                                                                                       
 THE REAL

STORY OF THANKSGIVING

by Susan Bates

"Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast.  And that did happen - once.

The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to  England with a

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[hockeyheretic35]

*historian*

None of that is news to me...but it does piss me off to think about it. Honestly, I just look at Thanksgiving as an excuse to have a nice meal with family without all the pressure and stress of xmas...

For more on this, you should get Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen. Ch. 3 is "The Truth about the First Thanksgiving."

[bone_dust]

this is also some good shit http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html