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“Thanksgiving
Day was first officially proclaimed by the Governor of the
Massachusetts Bay
Colony in 1637 to commemorate the massacre of 700 Pequot men, women and
children who were celebrating the annual green corn dance Thanksgiving
Day to
them- in their own home. Gathered in this place of meeting they were
attacked
by mercenaries, Dutch and English. The Indians were ordered from the
building
and as they came forth they were shot down. The rest were burned alive
in the
building. My research is authentic because it is documentary. You can't
get
anything more accurate than that because it is first hand," said
anthropologist
William B. Newell, a Penobscot with degrees from 2 universities, and
former
chairman of the anthropology department at the University of
Connecticut. His
research; Holland Documents and the 13 volume Colonial Documentary
History, a
set of letters from colonial officials to their superiors and the king
in
England, and the private papers of Sir William Johnson, a British
Indian agent
for the New York colony for 30 years in the mid-1600s. The next 100
Thanksgivings commemorated the killing of the Indians at Groton,
Connecticut,
rather than a celebration of them. The image of Indians and Pilgrims
sitting
around a large table to celebrate Thanksgiving Day is “fictitious”
although
Indians did share food with the first settlers.
Community Endeavor News, Nov. 1995.
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