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Survived the journey to what is today canada.

Thanksgiving celebration on. Participants in a national day of mourning honor native ancestors and the struggles of native peoples to survive today. It is far more difficult to accept that ones own ancestors participated in the genocide of. After wwi however the british empirecommonwealth including canada came to mark armistice day as a holiday which the us.

Indigenous americansthe final result was the near extinction of every single indigenous tribe in the united states and canada and anywhere from 10 to 30 million people dead10 to 30 million people. As far as i know canadian thanksgiving was a straight copy from the us just as labour day in september was. Although the first thanksgiving truly may have been the peaceful celebration of the pilgrims first harvest in 1621 between the europeans and the wampanoag people thanksgiving should be far from a celebration of the massive genocide of indigenous people by european colonizers.

Americans continue celebrating a holiday that whitewashes the mass killing of millions of native americans. The annual genocide whitewash. Thanksgiving day should be known as national land theft and american genocide day.

Most canadians cling to the notion that genocide means something that happens to other people in far away countries. I learned that in 1637 the body of a white man was discovered dead in a boat. Armed settlers which we tell our children were god fearing gentle sharing kind pilgrims invaded a pequot village.

But limbaugh is not alone in using thanksgiving to score some political points. Degree to which the holiday celebrates genocide. To them thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of their people the theft of their lands and the relentless assault on their culture.

While thanksgivings enthusiasts view it as a celebration of the boldness piety and sacrifices of the first european migrants to american shores the holidays critics claim that it whitewashes the genocide and ethnic cleansing of indigenous people. How the thanksgiving genocide led to the death of 100 million indigenous people around the world. Finally while i agree we need great vigilance to remember the travesty of genocide that happened on this continent and the continued suffering of native people i really think outrage over thanksgiving is an adventure in missing the point.