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The Real Marty · 11-21-2021, 07:02 AM

Here's the actual history of Thanksgiving, according to Wikipedia:

"The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating both days of prayer and fasting in response to disasters thought to reflect divine judgement, and also days of thanksgiving, thanking God for blessings such as a military victory or the end of a drought.[3] The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.[4] This feast lasted three days, and—as recounted by attendee Edward Winslow[5]—was attended by 90 Wampanoag and 53 Pilgrims.[6]

"Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, with a proclamation by President George Washington after a request by Congress.[7] President Thomas Jefferson chose not to observe the holiday, and its celebration was intermittent until President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", calling on the American people to also, "with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience .. fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation...". Lincoln declared it for the last Thursday in November.[8][9] On June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Holidays Act that made Thanksgiving a yearly appointed federal holiday in Washington D.C.[10][11][12] On January 6, 1885, an act by Congress made Thanksgiving, and other federal holidays, a paid holiday for all federal workers throughout the United States.[13] Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the date was moved to one week earlier, observed between 1939 and 1941 amid significant controversy. From 1942 onwards, Thanksgiving, by an act of Congress, signed into law by FDR, received a permanent observation date, the fourth Thursday in November, no longer at the discretion of the President.[14][15]"

So, what the heck does this have to do with Native Americans, other than the fact that the Pilgrims were nice enough to invite them to the first one?