Jump to content

A Thanksgiving thought


nurkvinny

Recommended Posts

A few hundred years ago, European explorers captured and took back a native Indian named Squanto as a slave. Squanto learned English while living in London.

 

Squanto eventually made his way back to his homeland on the East coast of the (later to be) USA.

 

When he made it back, he found that his entire tribe was killed off by a disease brought by the Europeans. Surrounding tribes were so scared, they refused to take over the land. Squanto's area was soon the only unclaimed area on the East coast.

 

A couple years later, these folks known as Pilgrims made their way here. The story of them even making it is incredible in itself. Anyways, they didn't land where they wanted to. They somehow managed to land in the one and only vacant area, and where an English-speaking Indian was living to boot.

 

Within the first couple years, many man, woman and children were dieing from many things, including lack of food.

 

Guess who came along and taught them how to live off the local land? Squanto was also part of the very first Thanksgiving. When he was on his deathbed, he asked the Pilgrims to pray that he would go to their Lord.

 

Hollywood couldn't write that.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Every major civilization ever created on this planet had its own version of cowboys vs. Indians. There were always natives in an area taken over by another people.

 

When you studied American history, did you only study the cowboys killing innocent indian chapters, or did you learn the whole story?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Every major civilization ever created on this planet had its own version of cowboys vs. Indians. There were always natives in an area taken over by another people. When you studied American history, did you only study the cowboys killing innocent indian chapters, or did you learn the whole story?

 

I watched Dances With Wolves. Thats all I needed.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Then we continued to rape and murder the rest of his people and land.... the end. Sounds like squanto was a pussy.

 

Thanks for the story. Feelsgoodman.

 

In Vince's version of the movie Jim Carey plays the pilgrim. Its a heart felt comedy about togetherness. In Wonderboys version the Pilgrims are lead by Sylvester Stallone who with his crooked lips mounts a musket turret on the back of a wagon and shoots off Native American heads.

 

If Abe Lincoln can kill fucking zombies I think a Pilgrim should have a musket turret!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...