Judy Dow's critique of the Thanksgiving myth provides a credible examination of the holiday's complexities, grounded in her perspective as an Abenaki scholar and educator. Dow questions the necessity of teaching the Thanksgiving narrative in schools and critiques the perpetuation of stereotypes through pageants and feasts. She draws on her own heritage and expertise as an Abenaki scholar to challenge the myth of "The First Thanksgiving" and offers alternative perspectives on the holiday's origins. Dow's background as an Abenaki scholar and educator lends credibility to her analysis of the Thanksgiving narrative. Her critique is rooted in a deep understanding of indigenous perspectives and challenges the dominant narrative perpetuated in education.…
The Image "The First Thanksgiving" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, painted in 1899 aims to depict a peaceful feast shared by the Pilgrims and the Native Americans in 1621. The image which was painted years after the actual event occur, leads the viewer to believe that the pilgrims and Native Americans continued to live in peace and harmony. However, this picture is not an accurate depiction of Amerindian and English colonist interactions. It lacks the true nature of what life was truly like for the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrim settlers during “The First Thanksgiving”. For instance, through this image the Pilgrims are being displayed as generous towards the Native Americans, when in reality it was the Natives who were always being kind form…
sometimes nothing at all, just so that I would be able to get a nutritious meal each day. The thing…
Have the students create a time line of when Columbus was born, until he died. Include important dates in Columbus' life like the following: the day he set sail for his first voyage, the day he landed, the day he returned to Spain, dates of other voyages, etc.…
They sustained their agriculture through a huge network of irrigation canals that carried water long distances.…
The Cherokee tribe splits up into three different tribes; Cherokee Nation, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Cherokee was one of the first, if not the first non-European ethnic group to become US citizens. This is one of the largest groups with an estimated population of 25,000 members. It is the largest of all of the Southern tribes. The Cherokee Nation had approximately 135,000 of land in North America. Eventually it extended from the Ohio River in the north to what is the state of Alabama to the South today.…
I’m inscribing this piece while sitting amongst family, on the holiday known by the US populace as “Thanksgiving”. A holiday represented in schools as a historical incidence of harmony, mutual respect, and gay allotment between Native Indians and whites, during the U.S. colonization era. In actuality, it is a grossly exaggerated, unashamed falsehood, portraying a day wherein sophisticated, blissful pilgrims shared their crops with ill-mannered, half-naked savages. This illusion is merely one in thousands of its kind, in a plethora of cock-and-bull stories being fed to the American laypeople, via historical education and promotion. Consequently, these incidences are unabashedly accepted within the populace, rather than them glancing at the cavernous information being presented in a more…
When the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1620, they landed on the rocky shores of a territory that was inhabited by the Wampanoag (Wam pa NO ag) Indians. The Wampanoags were part of the Algonkian-speaking peoples, a large group that was part of the Woodland Culture area. These Indians lived in villages along the coast of what is now Massachusetts and Rhode Island. They lived in round- roofed houses called wigwams. These were made of poles covered with flat sheets of elm or birch bark. Wigwams differ in construction from tipis that were used by Indians of the Great Plains.…
The entire idea of Thanksgiving is essentially molded around the idea of crops. Thanksgiving is thought to be, historically, a time where the Pilgrims and Indians came together to give thanks for the great harvest. In reality, The Native Americans celebrated the gifts of harvest as often as possible and the Pilgrims and Natives didn’t come together celebrating crops, but instead crops such as corn, and land in general was stolen from the Native Americans.…
The first Thanksgiving: what the real story tells us about loving God and learning from history / Robert Tracy McKenzie. Downers Grove, IL IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press,…
Morals and values are passed down and taught to one through traditions, customs, and beliefs. However as these traditions, customs, and beliefs are passed down they are altered through each generation. Native americans and other cultures lose a bit of themselves every year through the influence of western culture. Western culture not only influences traditions and customs but also devalues the importance of the cultures. Through the ignorance of today’s American society that we live in, the respect held for Native Americans and other cultures are fading day-by-day disrespecting them through selfish benefits. However, disregarding the loss of culture through the western culture, Native Americans put the effort to preserve…
In November 2012, my dad and I traveled to San Francisco for the Thanksgiving holiday. We had already done both of our family Thanksgivings, so it was the perfect opportunity to get away. Even without many plans, we were able to take a drive down the coast to Monterey, explore San Francisco, and see the beautiful college town of Palo Alto, all at our own pace.…
Finally George Washington made thanksgiving once a year. The Native Americans went through a lot. They got scalped Scalped is when they would take a knife and cut around the forehead. After they would pull the skin back off the head. They say that the native american were the original scalpers, when actually they were. When the edomites would scalp them all the blood cell and veins would come off with the scalp so the person would bleed to death. For each Scalp they cut off they would get paid 5 cents or more, to prove that person was dead.…
In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, the use of storytelling is quite prevalent. Within the framework of Ceremony there are references of the tradition of Native American storytelling along with the progression of telling a story. Storytelling within the Native American culture is oral, traditionally. The method of storytelling within Ceremony at the beginning lays down the framework of the entire book.…
The Government had agreed to deal with the Natives through "formal treaties", but a lot of changes were made as the government erased and redrew treaty line after treaty line, making their way more towards West. However, many Americans felt respect towards the Indians. They wanted them to be part of their society so they tried to Christianize them, civilize them, gave them the chance to attain literacy. Some Tribes resisted and some followed, especially the "Five Civilized Tribes"-which included the Seminoles, Cherokee, Creeks, Choctaw, and the Chickasaw. The Native Americans related to these tribes went to school, learned about agriculture, owned private property, and even owned black slaves. They became very open to the idea of joining the…