The cruel history behind Thanksgiving is in America, and Thanksgiving is a holiday created in America. For many people, Thanksgiving is a delicious turkey dinner, but there is a bloody history behind this festival. Let's share the cruel history behind Thanksgiving in America.
The cruel history behind American Thanksgiving Day 1 Among all kinds of special festivals in America, Thanksgiving Day is undoubtedly very eye-catching. Every Thanksgiving holiday, a large number of people in the United States, like China's Spring Festival holiday, do not forget to preach the so-called fraternity and gratitude while decorating, eating, drinking and having fun. What's more, the United States vigorously promotes its so-called gratitude culture, which makes some scholars in other countries blindly flock to it, hoping not to promote the United States as a paradise for mankind. However, what can't be hidden behind this festival is the bloody atrocities of ingratitude in the United States and the blood and tears of countless Indians that followed!
The story behind the Thanksgiving revelry in America can be described as bloody.
As a country with a short history, the real origin of the United States can be traced back to the may flower steamship in 1620. On September 6th of that year, may flower set out from England with 102 passengers and crew and arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA today. Because these European immigrants know nothing about this vast and completely unfamiliar continent, and their rations and other living materials are very limited, they will soon face despair when winter comes. In addition, many Indian tribes found that these new white immigrants approached each other quickly out of curiosity, and the metal tools of white immigrants especially attracted these Indians who were almost in the primitive society of the tribe, which led to the constant theft of these tools. Seeing that the number of white immigrants is at a disadvantage and their lives are uncertain, the first batch of white immigrants can only try their best to get on well with local tribes. For them, the appearance of a native named Skento at this time undoubtedly made white immigrants find great hope. Squanto was sold as a slave by Spanish colonists before, and later moved to Britain, where he stood for more than ten years and mastered English and Spanish. The man happened to be here when Mayflower arrived in North America. At that time, he was employed by British colonial institutions to help manage the affairs of a small town.
At first, Indian tribes helped white immigrants and signed friendly treaties.
Soon, as a translator and middleman, Sconto found Massasso, the chief of a local Indian tribe, talked with the immigrants and persuaded the local Indians to return the stolen metal tools. The Indian feast received immigrants and signed the famous Mayflower Convention in the presence of representatives of both sides, stipulating that both sides must live in peace and not plunder each other. One of the most important points is that Indians should always carry weapons such as bows and arrows on their backs, not in their hands, near white settlements, and white immigrants should not aim guns at aborigines. After the initial principle of peace was established, the food of immigrants was basically exhausted, so local tribes also offered a lot of food on their own initiative. Later, with the help of Squinto's translation, white immigrants learned to grow corn, pumpkins and other crops according to corn seeds donated by Indian tribes in the second year, and later learned to catch fish and turkeys (so these foods have a special position in American Thanksgiving culture). 1621165438+1On October 26th, the immigrants decided to invite representatives of Indian tribes and Squito to a thank-you banquet, at which a big meal made of the above food appeared. However, these simple Indians don't know that these white immigrants regard their despair in the New World as their main gift. The object of their real gratitude is not themselves at all. On the contrary, they are secretly regarded as barbaric pagans.
It was Indians who taught white people how to grow crops and catch turkeys.
166 1 When Sheikh Massasso died in, his tribe had lost more than half of its population due to the old world virus brought by immigrants. However, his son Metakomet, as an heir, obtained a large number of firearms through his close relationship with European immigrants, which enabled him to defeat and annex other Indian tribes, and eventually the population increased. However, at this time, the number of immigrants increased from thousands to hundreds of thousands, and they continued to enter the territory of Indian tribes, and their interests were constantly disputed. As a result, the relationship between the two sides became tense from the initial friendship. 1675, an Indian named John was killed by his relatives of the Wapanong tribe, because the tribe thought that John had been serving the white colonists and became his spy and traitor. The enraged white colonists immediately arrested three men of the tribe and executed them without enough evidence and witnesses (which completely violated British law). Soon after, a white farmer's guard shot and killed an aborigine because the aborigine was driving the animals on the white farm to eat their own crops. However, the angered Indians quickly beat the white guard and eight others to death, and two other whites were seriously injured. At that time, there were almost countless such incidents, and almost all of them were provoked by white colonists. At this point, white immigrants and locals went to war completely.
A painting depicting the confrontation between American white militia and Indian samurai
Soon Metakomet contacted some tribes to fight against the white people, and the white people sent several militia forces to fight against them. However, at the beginning of the war, white people were defeated in succession. After nearly a hundred people were killed, they fled in front of tens of thousands of Indian soldiers, and many colonists' houses were burned down. By the autumn of 1675, almost all the white settlements from New England to Connecticut were destroyed, and Boston and other places were in danger of being captured in the following spring. At this time, the colonial authorities can only unite. With scientific organization, weapons and tactical advantages, thousands of white militia quickly reversed the situation in the Connecticut Valley, while Indians were constantly knocked down by infectious diseases and their combat effectiveness declined. Metakomet, who commanded the battle in the wilderness jungle in the early winter of this year, was shot and wounded in the back by an Indian traitor who was secretly bought. Finally, he was captured alive by white people and was quickly beheaded and executed. After his body was dismembered, his head was still hanging in Plymouth Square where the Mayflower Convention was signed. At this time, it is only more than 40 years since the Indians helped white immigrants! However, for simple and kind Indians, this is only the beginning of disaster. Later, the famous American founding father, President Washington, publicly declared that Indians were as cruel as wolves and must be resolutely eliminated, and offered a reward for the Indian head; Custer, an army general who has always been advertised as a hero by the US military, is even more famous for his cruelty. He once publicly declared that only dead Indians are good Indians.
In the killing of North American Indians, the performance of the US military is no different from that of the Nazis.
In the following years, the fighting between Indian tribes and white colonists never stopped, so that the westward advance after the founding of the United States was built on the bones of countless dead Indians. According to records, sporadic fighting between Indians and American troops almost lasted until the 1930 s! Because the Indians were not regarded as real people at first, the atrocities committed by the US military were numerous, the most representative of which was the Shaxi Massacre in 1864. At that time, because of the land dispute between American whites and Indians, the Xiating tribe and the Arapaho tribe were at war with the American army. While shamelessly pretending to talk and negotiate, the top US military mobilized artillery and infantry to raid unsuspecting Indian villages. After taking the initiative in the battlefield, they not only killed all the injured Indian soldiers, but even women and children. According to eyewitness's recollection, some Indian tribes' babies born less than a few months were also brutally chopped into pieces. After the war, several American soldiers brought Indian scalps back to a theater in Denver, Colorado, and exhibited their bloody trophies in public, which won warm applause. It is not difficult to imagine how cruel the foundation of American white society was at that time. Once upon a time, the North American continent was full of Indians, but now most of them are killed by white weapons and spread viruses. Look at the vicious acts of white Americans, which can be compared with later Nazis and Japan!
Nowadays, with the intensification of the process of world integration, foreign festivals such as Thanksgiving Day have begun to become household names in China. Some soft chicken soups have ulterior motives to promote American gratitude culture, and the American media have spared no effort to publicize how much they love. Then I might as well ask him a question here: how do white Americans thank those Indians who saved themselves in the most difficult time with their own practical actions? Have those Americans who eat, drink and have fun on Thanksgiving ever thought about the Indians who were brutally killed by your ancestors? Do you really know what gratitude is?
The cruel history behind American Thanksgiving Day 2 Thanksgiving Day originated in America. To understand a nation, we must start with understanding its festivals. No country, no matter how glamorous and powerful, can hide its past. Without stories, history will not die. Under the light of civilization, everything will be shown to the world.
Thanksgiving, which we are celebrating now, originated in America and is the most authentic legal holiday in America. Its original meaning was "thanks to Indians", and later it was generalized as "thanks to others".
Who knows? Thanksgiving Day is a festival to celebrate the victory of the Indian Massacre after the white people invaded the United States. ...
Starting from 194 1, the United States will designate the fourth Thursday of June 1 1 as Thanksgiving Day. It is necessary for us to understand the origin of Thanksgiving and pay homage to the tens of millions of Indians slaughtered by Americans.
Why did the United States set up Thanksgiving Day? This has to start with the immigration history of the United States.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/620, the first European immigrants came to the North American continent by may flower. At that time, it was freezing, the immigrants were hungry and cold, and some people starved to death. Fortunately, the simple Indians found and helped them and kept them alive. The next year, the immigrants enjoyed a bumper harvest. They drank with the Indians for three days and nights to celebrate and enjoy the fun.
However, predatory immigrants coveted Indian wealth such as land, gold and jewelry. After gaining a foothold, they exposed lost face and began to slaughter Indians crazily. Only 50 years later, the Indian tribal leaders who had saved the lives of immigrants were killed, their bodies were chopped and thrown into the water, their heads were paraded as trophies, and the whole tribe became extinct. This is just the beginning of the massacre. With the establishment of the American government, more Indians were massacred collectively.
The killing and suppression of Indians by American troops and militia lasted from 1803 to 1892, which lasted almost a century. 18 14, the U.S. government also rewarded the killing of Indians: for each Indian skull, the government rewarded $ 50- 100, including $50 for killing Indian babies under 12, $50 for killing Indian women and 12. General william sherman, an American civil war hero, once boasted, "If we kill more people this year, fewer people will be killed next year-they will be killed anyway, or they will be raised as inferior breeds."
19 From the 1960s to the 1990s, especially after the Civil War, the American government's massacre of Indians was almost crazy. With the cooperation of the militia, the US military launched more than 1000 military operations of different scales, and many Indian villages became ghost towns overnight. By the 1890 s, the US military had basically completed the task of exterminating Indians. No one knows exactly how many Indians died, except that when Columbus "discovered" the new American continent, there were as many as 30 million to 10 billion Indians living in the United States, and now there are only 800,000 Indians left, most of whom were forcibly assimilated by the United States and lived in the backcountry.
Reviewing this history will help us to recognize the hypocrisy of human rights in the United States. For most white people, those yellow-skinned Indians belong to another kind. They have no "human rights" in America. How can we be worthy of the gratitude of noble white people? Therefore, Thanksgiving, which was originally designed to "thank the Indians", was gradually generalized to "thank others" because of the extinction of the Indians, and the sins of American ancestors were also written off! Water Mu Ran believes that no private capital, no matter how charming and powerful, can hide its past.
The cruel history behind American Thanksgiving Day 3 If life is only the first time,
Behind Thanksgiving, there is a "simple" but rarely mentioned story, and it all starts with the Mayflower.
/kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, the Puritans in England were persecuted. 1September 620, 102 The Puritans boarded the sailboat "Mayflower" and arrived in Plymouth Harbor, USA on February 26, 65438, ready to start a new life. However, these immigrants simply can't adapt to the local environment. Only 50 people survived after the first winter. It's cold winter now, and they come to a strange place, lacking clothes and food, and the harsh environment threatens their lives. At this critical moment, the local Indians sent them food, daily necessities and production tools, taught them how to farm on this land and helped them build their new homes. This autumn, the immigrants got a bumper harvest. 165438+1At the end of October, immigrants invited Indians to enjoy delicious food made of corn, pumpkin and turkey, thanking them for their help and thanking God for giving them a bumper harvest. Since then, Thanksgiving Day has become a fixed holiday in America.
The farmer and the snake
/kloc-European colonists who came to America after the 0/6th century brought devastating disasters to the local Indians. According to statistics, during the colonial period, about130,000 Indians were killed in Spain, about100,000 Indians were killed in Brazil, and about100,000 Indians were killed in the westward movement of the United States. A large number of Indians were enslaved and even slaughtered. By 2 1 century, there were about 30 million Indians. The male Indians in Latin America basically have no descendants of pure male series, and most of their hybrids, Mestizos, are descendants of male colonists and local women. The situation in North America is even worse. Indians were driven to Indian reservations, accounting for less than 5% of the local population. In the United States, Indians only account for about 1% of the total population.
From 65438 to 0783, after the independence of the United States, the slaughter and abuse of Indians did not converge at all. With the rapid development of capitalism, in order to expand the territory, the American government expelled Indians from their ancestral homes. 1830, the American government passed the Indian Immigration Act, which stipulated that all Indians in the east should move to the reservation designated for them west of the Mississippi River and practise apartheid and persecution. Most of these "Indian reservations" are remote and barren mountainous or desert areas.
The ruthless killing driven by interests lasted for many years. When the horses of civilization galloped on the vast and magnificent plains, when the guns of civilization roared, it became a carnival fireworks, and the blood of despair was sprinkled on the fertile land. Will there be a bumper harvest of grain in the coming year? There is no suspense in this battle, and you can guess the ending from the beginning. Indians were squeezed by "advanced productive forces" and turned from the owners of this land into slaves. It's a pity that they didn't read the story of The Farmer and the Snake earlier.