When you think of Thanksgiving, you're sure to have this in your head. Bright lights, ripe red apples, hot turkeys that have just come out of the oven, the family sits around the table, praying to God reverently, thanking God for all that God and the Indians have given... Is this scene in your mind similar to what the Western media describes? Sure enough, you still unconsciously accepted the Western media's claims about the origin of Thanksgiving. In fact, when you learn the true origin of Thanksgiving in the West, you will scoff at it because it is full of hypocrisy, deception, and sin.
In 1620, a ship called the Mayflower carried 102 English Puritans to the Americas, where they fled because of religious persecution in England. Lowering the deck, the cold sweat reminded these outsiders that it was winter in the Americas at this time. With no food and no clothes, how to survive on this strange continent is a problem. In the distance, several pairs of eyes in the woods were watching the strangely dressed outsiders, and one of the Indians had gathered enough courage to come out and pass the food in his hand to the group of strangers. The friendship between the British and the Indians was established at this moment.
In order to help this group of friends who came from afar, the Indians not only provided supplies, but also gave them their own life experience of living in this land, teaching them how to hunt, fish, and plant, playing the role of "Shennong". With the help of the Indians, the British ushered in their first harvest in a foreign land, and to celebrate, they designated this Thursday in late November as Thanksgiving, and in the days that followed, they rejoiced with the Indians, drinking and eating meat, singing and dancing, and the Indians were initially very fond of this new group of foreign friends.
However, the Indians slowly discovered that something was wrong with this group of friends, and they began to occupy the land, more and more land belonging to the British, and less and less land for the Indians. Although the Indians never had the concept of the earth boundary, their living space was further compressed, and their dissatisfaction slowly appeared. To this end, the Indians and the British made representations, but the problem was never fundamentally resolved, and the contradictions and frictions between the two sides increased to the point of irreconcilability, and the friendship previously established was gone.
The Indians and the outsiders broke out into war, and because the European colonists who arrived in the Americas in the early days were all in separate camps, lacking contact and communication, they were often broken by the Indians one by one, and suffered heavy losses. Later, they discovered this loophole and joined forces together, making the Space for Indian guerrilla tactics to play smaller and smaller, and the colonists finally stabilized the situation, and then thought about how to counter the Indians.
Colonists found that the North American bison provided a large source of food and raw materials for the Indians, and seizing the key to the North American bison and eliminating the Indians was not solved? In just 20 years, a large number of North American bison have been hunted, and the number has dropped from 13 million to about 1,000. The Indians, who had lost their North American bison, were also decimating, but they had not yet reached the ideal range of the colonists, and this time they decided to deceive the Indians.
The Indians, who had lost their source of livelihood, were placed by the U.S. government on "reservations" to live on and promised to provide food and teach planting. Called "reserved land", it is actually composed of several barren lands, there is no way to grow anything, even if the US government provides seeds, tools, and technology, it is useless. In addition, the U.S. government promised to provide food for only 10 years, and after 10 years, it was left to the Indians to fend for themselves.
As the Indians waned, the colonists finally exposed their ambitions and began to raise their butcher knives. In 1814, the U.S. government announced that the extermination of Indians would be rewarded, and in the face of the temptation of bounties, countless bounty hunters emerged, many Indians lost their precious lives, and the crimes of the colonists were innumerable. The colonists' hatred of the Indians did not fade with the passage of time, and General Sherman of the Civil War once said arrogantly: "The only good Indian man I have ever seen is the dead." Even U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, who was later praised for his emancipation of slavery, ordered the hanging of 38 Indian chiefs.
There is an old saying in China, the grace of dripping water, when the spring repays. I don't know why the Americans hated the Indians who saved their lives and almost exterminated them. And on Thanksgiving Day, doesn't it feel hypocritical to thank the Indians for their kindness? Isn't it ridiculous to say that I accidentally destroyed your door, but I also want to thank you for giving me room to live? How could the Indian who had reached out to help have imagined that what he had saved was a group of demons that looked like people.