Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)
The fourth Thursday of November of each year in the United States is commemorated Thanksgiving Day, a day of festivities, parades, family gatherings and abundant meals, where the pavita can not miss at the celebration table.
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The special guest for this date is the baked turkey, the traditional dinner obliges to use the products of the native peoples, it is so traditional the consumption of turkeys that at some point have been called the day Turkey Day, turkey day, turkey It is usually accompanied with a blueberry sauce, mashed potatoes or green beans, from apples to pies or pumpkin pie, the drink can be based on apple, wine and champagne.
It commemorates the first supper of brotherhood and the union of the native peoples with the colonizers in North America.
The Thanksgiving dinner is very similar to the good night dinner of my Argentine country.
The truth is that the chronicle of Thanksgiving implied endless deaths of native Indians, by resisting the care of their lands before the invading colonies.
Susan Bates recounts accurately in the video "Lest We Forget: The Truth About Thanksgiving" What happens on the fourth Thursday of November of each year in the United States.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDCgaRAl_2TJFTOLzlhELJQ
The video basically comments on the calvary of Native Americans originating in Europe with the arrival of Europeans, many of the natives were captured and taken to England to be sold as slaves.
This in benefit helped in the negotiation of the natives with the settlers through an Indian called Tisquantum who was able to communicate and to arrive at a treaty of peace with the settlers.
The colonizers learned to sin and sow with the help of the natives, they celebrated with a great feast the successful result of the first planting.
This soon arrived in the ears of the English, decided to visit and settle in these fertile lands, before the resistance of the original peoples took place the great massacre, at the end of the massacre they celebrated with a dinner giving thanks for the conquered.
Abraham Lincoln signed a decree stating that the fourth Thursday of November of each year A national holiday day, to commemorate the victims of the bloody conquest.
Sources:http://esoterismos.com/las-mejores-frases-de-accion-de-gracias-thanksgiving-day/
Sources: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Acci%C3%B3n_Gracias
Sources: http://pijamasurf.com/2013/11/la-verdadera-y-sangrienta-historia-del-dia-de-accion-de-gracias-video/
I'll wait for you tomorrow to enjoy another account of my land Corrientes.
José Luis Fernández
Corrientes Argentina
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