Kindergarteners at Jackson School got firsthand experience at a Thanksgiving feast today with all the trimmings. The students filed into the auditorium, some of them dressed as Native Americans and others arrived as Pilgrims on the Mayflower. Teachers then served them a lunch of turkey, stuffing, potatoes, corn and apple sauce.
Above, Colin gets his meal, and below are Julia and Cameron.
did they have a choice of
did they have a choice of whether they wanted meat or not and were they told the truth behind thanksgiving???
No, they were force fed the
No, they were force fed the meat and the teachers read a book explaining how the Pilgrims' spaceship landed just outside of the reservation and they all had a wonderful meal together.
Mary, please tell us what
Mary, please tell us what part of this is not true:
1. At Plymouth Colony, in 1621, the colonists and members of the Wampanoag tribe shared a harvest feast.
2. Wanpanoag hunters brought five deer.
3. The feast lasted three days.
4. President Lincoln declared the national day of Thanksgiving in 1863, to be held in November.
You can find more about the meal by researching cookbooks of the 1700sl reading journals of those in attendancel checking the oral histories of the Wampanoag people; seeking artists' renditions of the day; and exploring archeologist evidence at the site of Plymouth colony.
If none of that offers proof, then please tell us the real story.
Three perspectives on
Three perspectives on Thanksgiving:
http://www.manataka.org/page269.html