Thanksgiving...

The event that Americans commonly call the "first Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in November 1621. This feast lasted three days and was attended by 90 Native American Wampanoag people and 53 survivors of the Mayflower (Pilgrims).

I was sitting in a training a little while back and we started the training out by "paying homage to the indigenous people who own this land that we encroach upon."  I raised my hand and stated "I think you misspelled conquered". What happened is we, like most of the British Empire, and thousands of empires that proceeded them, conquered the people and the land of the America's. 

Now that isn't a pretty picture.  That isn't a picture of harmless natives teaching how to bury a fish with a cob of corn so that the corn grows, that isn't drawing the picture of the peaceful indians who shared in everything, but it is what happened.  We may not like it, the indians really don't like it, but that is what happened.  A more advanced civilization came, saw, and conquered.

What I find funny is when we talk of the atrocities of "The Rape of the America's" we talk about how innocent the indians were, and how predatorial the pilgrims and eventual new Americans were.  We 'forget' the little stories where the Aztecs once took over 80,000 prisoners of war and sacrificed them to  appease their demon gods over a three day period.  Somehow we neglect to remember how these civilizations sacrificed men, women, and children to their gods.  We forget that the Aztec's, the Toltec's, the Mayan's committed genocide a dozen times over on tribes that were conquered.  We simply forget that the Apache's and Comanche's, the Blackfoot, and the Seminole lived to raid and murder other tribes.

These pictures of the peaceful natives is a farce.  We forget that their leaders sold them out for furs and firewater, that tribes sided with the French, the British, and even the Americans, who ever paid the right price.  We over look the fact that their leaders to this day grow fat and rich off casino's while the majority of the populace grows up in abject poverty.  We overlook the fact that substance abuse, rape, and incest is a thousand percent higher on a reservation than it is off. and their leaders blame this on "the theft of their land and identity."  I think you misspelled conquered.   

A native American has a 2000% higher chance of completing school to obtain a terminal degree and live above the poverty line if they do so off the reservation in American society.   A native American who joins the military for instance, is about 200 times more likely to be employed for the rest of their life, gaining for their family generational success.  But we are lead to believe that if we go use the slots and eat at their buffet we are supporting the "indigenous" way of life.

I feel bad that 200 years later there are still those that cry for the poor natives, and that have no clue that maybe growing up starving and in a loincloth may not be every indian's dream.  That they may just want to have a chance at the American dream, and the opportunity for generational success.  That the average indian just wants a chance like every other blue blooded American, that living off the dole and what ever small supplement from the casino and the luck of working for their taskmasters may not fit into the "Native dream".

As Americans we have always been VERY generous to those who we have conquered, we rebuilt the South after the  War of Northern Aggression, look at the Germans, we rebuilt their country twice, and the Japanese who we have rebuilt and set up for so much success they have surpassed us in lifestyle and technology.  Even now we send foreign aid to everyone including our enemy's.  

We as Americans have much to be thankful for, but we earned it, we have developed the land, we have fought the great fights and won, we have made our own place in the world as a superpower, we didn't just lay down and hope for the best, despite the fact that the bleeding liberal left would have you believe we just raped and pillaged our way to the top. 

So while the liberal left echos dreams of returning the land to the deserving conservationist "indigenous people" and tells tales of the rape of the land, just remind them of the fact that they misspelled conquered.

Take Care,

Stay Vigilant,

God Bless the American Warfighters- both home and abroad,

God Bless the True and Rightful President,

President Donald TRUMP,

Long live the Republic,

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