Yah"Ah"Tay .🐾 N"de . I'm Apache and I live in massachusett and here in New England is a lot of Native American don't celebrate Thanksgiving because the massacre .🔥
The fact that oil pipelines burst after protesting their installation in the first place further adds to the tragic legacy of the complete disregard towards the lives of Indigenous peoples ...
Tepehuan native here: I loved this video. I loved the different views and ways to think of this holiday. To the White Man I say think of this day as a way to thank Native People for helping the Pilgrims even though they brought us Plague and Genocide. Give thanks for what you have and do not take further. To my fellow First Nation people: Use this day to remind yourselves that you are beautiful, we are peaceful people and we are willing to help those in need even when they don't deserve it. Squanto was a slave and should have sought revenge on the white man but instead he rose above. Love one another and as the last woman said we are all human beings and can all grow together. I give thanks for life.
I am having a difficult time replying to your beautiful response. I have many nationalities in my blood including Italian, German, Dutch, and a small bit of Cherokee. Thanksgiving to me is being thankful that America is a melting pot and a time to remember and pay honor to the American Indians who sacrificed so much due to genocide and disease. However, I am against the boycott of Thanksgiving. The story most of us were told in school as a place to recognize how important our native people were when Columbus came to the new world and the sad reality of the genocide needs to be taught to our older children.
Beautifully done with love. May all be aware, may the truth be recognized, may empathy be felt beyond boundaries, borders, & colors, uniting the peoples as human beings, & may the future be brighter. A'ho.
ThanksGiving for me traces its roots in the civil war. Abraham Lincoln established a federal holiday asking a divided country to set aside their differences and be thankful. That's what I want to celebrate.
I never knew anything about Thanksgiving being from Canada. I now live in Southern California and still never knew what it was about. I just used it as a day to give thx for everything God has blessed me with and enjoy a great meal with loved ones
Growing up I didn't know the real story of Thanksgiving. We need know the real history behind what we celebrate. Native culture is a rich, colorful, beautiful! this should be a time about celebrating and appreciating them and their heritage! Thanks for this video for their perspective
Thank you for the wide variety of color in your family and friends' ideas; was nice to be reminded i have the right blessings going for me and should stay positive, ha....Happy day after....;) Blessings to you and yours....
Thank you so much for all your words, we have our second year we are not celebrate Thanksgiving because is not right, we have to teach our kids in the house and school the true of the genocide went on that time.....
It really piss me off when all people say: "thanksgiving day" Thanks for what? for colonialism, genocide, discrimination? This thing is colonialism. is another christmas day.
Samantha Turner Lol So how was your Thanksgiving? I had a fabulous Thanksgiving, spending time with my fiance and enjoying myself. How was your Thanksgiving?
They never called themselves pilgrims, a historian in the mid 1800s called them pilgrims in a book and the name just stuck. "The English settlers" would be more accurate, and later addressing them by their colony or town before the US was formed.
@@theactualtruth4951 The irony was, that when it came to actual Christian principles, the settlers, and the officials in charge of things regarding Colonial policy, were violating every command in the New Testament !! I didn't see the inside of a Bible,to read it,until I was an adult. That's the first thing I thought of. The rules for the first Christians never would have allowed such behavior, and that included abducting people to use for slavery ! These two things, genocide and slavery, they are un- Christian. How can anyone NOT pick up on this ?! Clearly,though staunch conservatives claim otherwise, these acts on the part of the English were European ONLY, not Christian. The New Testament cancelled out the things done in the Old. New Covenant is just that.
I remember him way back when he played in North of 60. I loved that show, and I miss it. Thank you Michael Horse your a good actor. Happy Native American day, Nov.25,2023.
I know this was 6 years ago, but I found it now. Off topic, as soon as I saw Gregory and heard him speak I thought, "He had to have been in a movie or something." Great voice, glad I was right. Anyway, my ancestors are from Europe, but I can't say that I "celebrate" Thanksgiving. I do know the true history of it, and over the years Thanksgiving for me has changed from the "Pilgrims" narrative, to just the meaning of giving thanks, although that's even fading away. I have done a lot of traveling by motorcycle around North America, and many times I have tried to imagine what the place I'm traveling through looked like 600-700 years ago. It can sometimes become overwhelming. Peace and love to all of you.
@@hanifabdullah4661 and you think that your comment is the most brilliant? the comment from you is simply sarcasm. It is brainless. You evidently have no knowledge of what I said.
I'm a black israelite have kids with native american israelite and i refuse to celebrate thanksgiving! Its stupid to celebrate the distruction of one's people, it angers me and make me sick
This Thanksgiving and everyday from now on, I will keep the Water Protectors in my prayers. Thank you to everyone who protects animals and the environment.
I always feel bad as an European seeing native Americans. My hearth definitely stand for you. My ancestors did not even move to America, but still feeling guilty and wish that history went different. But as the one man said, one should check the facts and move forward.
Perhaps... we should simply choose a day where all the people of our nation stop routines and gather together to give thanks for one another and move forward together.
This is True Fact. All Native Americans Are The Protect Of The Land For Humanity. We Still Have Our Mind--Skin Color--Spirit--Creative On How To Live Our Lives Til We Really Go To Our Eternity Home. Aho. Creator Be Among You.
@B. Howard Black history and indigenous to America history are similar. However, the difference as I see it is the fact that white Europeans wanted to exterminate the Natives - their livelihood , their traditions, and their very lives. Even now, the government manipulates and schemes to keep Native Peoples down. In case you are wondering... no I am not Native.I've just done my homework. Natives aren't exaggerating about how the government still persecutes them. My suggestion is to subscribe to an authentic Native news source on line. Beware of the white washed news from those who have acclimated to the white mindset.
I live on the Tohono Oodham Reservation along the southern border. Not everyone can cook Thanksgiving in our very poor village. Thanksgiving , Christmas, New year and Easter are days we are extra careful because the Cartel runs their drugs and peoples heavy on those days . We have to cross Border Patrol inspection to leave the Reservation, but on those days and many others the station is closed and you just drive on thru with whatever cargo you are carrying. We have the most corrupt Legislative Council. The person who is our rep ran drugs with her husband and brother in laws, one brother in law was the chief of customs for our Tribe. This is true because I saw it first hand and it was my sister. We really need to hold our reps accountable in Tribal Gov. they are letting natives struggle while they gave themselves a 40,000. raise in a closed session during Covid.
Thanksgiving for me means family. Getting the family together and friends and celebrate togetherness. I’m mostly Mexican but some of my family think there a little Apache blood in us but not sure
I only celebrate Christmas and Easter I have friends of all kinds American Indian friends I have a couple of them as well I’m kind of animals kind to others unless somebody messes with me I like to go to church on the holidays or to the words for peace and quiet love your video by the way thumbs up
Thank you for your time and I hope you are doing well Sandra' s May the spirit go with you all way be Happy to be with your love one's They can take your spirit form you.👠🐎😽🐱12\26\2020
Thanks for the video. Good thing about internet that I am sitting in a city in Asia and able to listen to teaching from people very far away. It is a very humbling message. Have a good day!
I don’t recognize Thanksgiving as a holiday after learning the real meaning behind it. I am thankful every single day for my family and I don’t wait a full year to get together with them and have a nice dinner. We do this every other weekend when possible. You never know when is going to be your last day in this sad world, so, why wait a full year? Peace ☮️
This was informative and thank you for your honesty i appreciate you so much. I don't celebrate this holiday at all. We don't need 1 day out of the year to get together as a family and be Thankful. Any form of honoring this holiday is a dishonorable act to those villages and indengenious people that lost their lives its wrong to me personally. But this is my personally opinion and views.
Human history is full of dark actions against humanity. But I never let the past be a burden on my future. Latino history is full of tragedy also. So be it. I can't change the past, I can only choose to enjoy what I have now and look to the future. Happy Thanksgiving. May the food, company and Football games games be great
As a kid, growing up in the U.S. school systems, we were dressed up in Native American and Puritan attire, I ALWAYS inherently knew that what they were teaching us about Thanksgiving and Christopher Columbus was a HUGE LIE, and I ALWAYS resented it-the indoctrination should be illegal.
Bonsoir je suis une algérienne née en France. Pour mon âme c est choquant de voire des millions de gens "fetaient" le pire génocide de notre humanité tous les ans. Ils réécrivent l histoire et la glorifie comme d.habitude... mon coeur et mon âme est avec vous
Just teach the truth. Talk about Gov. Winthrop of Massachusett. Talk of the Pequot. How and why they were massacred. Winthrop declaring it " A day of giving thanks." We're talking about human beings here.
I always felt in my Spirit there was something amiss with Thanksgiving but could not put my finger on it - THEN I came to this TRUTH this year and I choose NOT to partake in Thanksgiving or any other helliday anymore. It should be a DAY OF REMEMBRANCE in complete Silence - it was MASS MURDER!. We have messed up!
10533 323344 you sound just like the flea infested, disease ridden trash that came here to lie, cheat, steal, kill... gtf outta here with your “ NO GOD HAVING ASS”
10533 323344 the teaching to enslave ppl mentally was the Cesare Borgia beast image that was forced upon us as the “Messiah” the beginning of WS.. OUR GOD AND MESSIAH ARE DARK SKINNED AND VERY ANGRY FOR THE ATROCITIES DONE TO HIS PPL.. you will eat your words (I’m patiently waiting for His coming) and no rat will get doubt in my way
Native Atheist you’re an atheist, your comment doesn’t surprise me... martial law, chaos then when you see his chariots appear In the sky, you’ll feel regret but it will be too late
@@Haahmayan_Hanah_Selah_777 Haha, Pascal's Wager has never been convincing to a rational person. Out of the hundreds of thousands of gods that have been proposed, how do you know your god is the correct one? We could both be languishing in the hell of some other god. You're a fool.😂😂
I really enjoyed hearing a Native’s perspective. As a descendant of the Mayflower, I took a big interest in the real history of Thanksgiving. Obviously a lot has been lost to time but I think it is important to recognize that the first celebration was at a time of temporary peace. Many despicable things have happened since and it is important to continue to read about it and acknowledge it. For my family, Thanksgiving has always been a time when we get together to celebrate our many blessings in life that we are thankful to God for. It’s not a celebration of Native casualty and suffering.
The interesting part is that in spite of all that these precious souls have been going through over the centuries, at least the fact that they’re still alive should be something to be thankful for.
@@deborahadeniji808 Exactly ! I give thanks for Native Americans, who gave the world democracy. Without them, the democratic republic wouldn't exist, just monarchies.
These Native Americans are white washed. Imagine celebrating the holocaust or African-American slavery with a feast every year as a twisted reminder of being thankful for your family. It’s Wrong stop 👨💻
Native = nature. meaning one of spirtual understanding and we are one... listen to the last women speak. Doesn't matter her complexion it's in the heart that makes you native
@@theactualtruth4951 pretty weird of you to deny heritage of someone you dont know. For all you know she could live in the culture on a reservation and is just mixed.
Why a hanging the whole theme of America this is a land we can all share and unite, That's why it's the "UNITE STATES IF AMERICA" LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT""
As a Hebrew Isrealite I do care very dearly for my Native bro but I have one hurt towards them they trusted the pale face that speak with a forth tonge.
My opinion is that nobody can actually say what happened hundreds of years ago accurately because all accounts on history could only be told by word of mouth or documents that get re written through out the years so I can't fully believe history books or people's word. The only people that knows exactly what happened back then are the ones who were there and they have been gone for a long,long time. If you want to celebrate it, go ahead. If you don't, don't but do not criticize others for their right to do or not.
Native Americans are not all fair skin people. Some mixed with the Spanish, British and other colonists and lost their native language some did not. There were native indian people with dark brown skin, who people call black today, in America before the colonists settled. People in countries near the equator, people of the sun, such as the African countries, India, Hawaii, New Zealand, Fiji, Caribbean countries were mostly reddish brown, brown or dark brown skinned and were nomadic people. They were traveling in canoes around what we call the equator area.
I found out that school lied thanksgiving. I do not like the way the colonies, or the us Calvary was miss treated to your ancestors. I enjoy the holiday for the food. In the 1990’s my uncle and Aunt, my cousins, my grandparents would come over. We would have a big meal. I would be talking to my cousins or be on granddaddy’s computer. Then granddaddy would come and ask my cousins, my brothers, or me “Son would you like some popcorn or some ice cream.” When we did not want to think of food. I heard about that pipeline. I was hoping you would win. I did not hear what the results where. I hope you one. ❤
I'm sorry it took me 37 years to understand the true meaning of Thanksgiving. I'm sorry. I tried to tell my gf the truth about thanksgiving and she told me I was crazy. I'm sorry.
