New Zealand Family Reacts to The Real Story of Thanksgiving 

" Labas, sveiks gyv's", I'm baking a kugelis this morning.

that is so awesome. thank you for sharing.

Hello John Alden. My family are descendant of John Howland.

It was just this year that I learned that my first ancestor in this country was a Puritan who came to Plymouth in 1633. Not the first Thanksgiving, by any means, bot not that far removed from it either. When I learned the story of the first Thanksgiving, we were not fed a sanitized version, but were told about warfare between the settlers and some of the tribes and alliances with other tribes. We also learned about Squanto and Samoset and the horrendous deaths of the Puritans through 1620-21. Of course, I only live about 150 miles from Boston and I learned all this some 55 years ago or so. History wasn't quite so sanitized in those days.

@@Lindsay-nx5sv Happy Thanksgiving! Among other things, I am thankful that our ancestors were such tough, determined people. Who cares about a stupid "Little Ice Age," anyway?

What was the name of the girl?🐝🤗❤️

.........and they plant all of that on a fish (which you can see in the Natives hand at 11:25).

Thus, came "3 sisters soup"

Here, here

I'm in Kentucky!!! Welcome home, if only for a while!!

@@anissia1210 Well welcome back to your old kentucky home

This is the sanitized version. Lol

@@anissia1210 Thank you! I just found your comment. Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays🐝🤗❤️

@@conner3626 Thank you so much! I only just found your comment. I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving and a merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you🐝🤗❤️

Hey Steve Dittmar, would you welcome someone from Delaware? That sound like a lot of fun!

That sounds like a perfect Thanksgiving vacation! I hope they will consider it. It sounds just perfect!

Sounds like Whiffles Tree farm. Where abouts in Northern Illinois? Grew up somewhere up there, and now in Southern Illinois.

How awesome! I always pictured Thanksgiving that way.

I guess that goes against the true meaning of Thanksgiving, to give unto others less fortunate than yourself. You should extend the invite for FREE.

The advantages of being friends with the Pilgrims were many. They helped defend the friendly Indians from their hostile enemies, half of them learned and accepted our loving God, and the alliances made together lasted 50 years!

@@kathleenarnold3739 Accepted our 'loving God'? YOU MAKE ME PUKE!

What is your family name and lineage? I highly doubt your statement.

The traditional thanksgiving meal is because it is what they had available. The main ingredient of thanksgiving is to be that full for that. Give thanks for what you have available and use every fiber of it in the pursuit of happiness.

@@gregthompson1704 today there is an estimated 35 million people who can trace there lineage back to one of 52 people on the Mayflower who had children. So it’s not as insanely rare as you’d think. Pretty amazing to think about

Wasn't thanksgiving a celebration of the pilgrims when they killed the natives?

@@You-so2jy Say you went to a public school without saying you went to a public school.

*Lord

Lived on the South Shore for a couple. I had an Aunt, Uncle, and cousins in Duxbury which is about 10 miles from Plymouth.

@@HemlockRidge My ancestors were among the founders of Duxbury, along with the Standishes.

@@johnalden5821 I went to Emerson and my dorm was the old Charlesgate East Hotel, just across Beacon Street from the BU Myles Standish Hall.. the Standishes have a very long history!

@@johnalden5821 Kewl. I live in south central Pennsylvania now. About 35 miles from Gettysburg.

Yes, Plymouth Plantation is a fun family place to visit.

I learned the history of it in the 1950's in Elementary school. It was a one day class where they said how hazardous the crossing was, and some died along the way, then the Indian attacks, starvation and illnesses and miraculously 47 of them survived that first winter. Then the Indians saved them by forming an alliance, teaching them to grow food, etc. I was told the first celebration was a Thank You to the Indians for saving them. It just shows that none of us get through life without the help of others.

They contributed a lot to the survival of the people who came over they taught us and we taught them. We gave them tools and food they needed while they gave us a land wealth of knowledge of the land. I wish people would learn the true relationships the people then. Was there fighting yes there was but there was fighting way before we landed here.

Yo no way there's someone else from Connecticut in this comment section lmao

Even this is sanitized. It's not bad though like you were saying about what is taught in school.

I'm realizing too that every region of the country has their traditional dishes, but that us here in New England seem to do dishes that are more closely connected to what the pilgrim and Indians would have had.

@@cripple9860 yes, my whole, life except for college in Boston. Grew up in Windsor. Live in Enfield.

I was born and raised in CT - moved to TX when I was 32. We were taught this version in grammer (elementary) school when I attended back in the late 70's. I don't want to say that the teaching is a regional thing, but maybe being in New England, where Thanksgiving originated, gave us more in dpeth history on the founding of the country by the Pilgrims. I gotta say that my 2 kids were schooled here in TX (between 2000-2013) and weren't taught about Thanksgiving as in depth as I was - but boy do they know TX history!! LOL - At least they had my knowledge, because what they didn't learn in school I was able to school them in. That's 3 from CT in the comment section now!! LOL

Love Mr. Ballen! BUT I don't recommend these guys watch his channel with their kids. Maybe only like 3 or 4 videos with their kids. But not the Roanoke video for sure though!

@@jennieo333 Completely agree! I love Mr Ballen, but just for the adults…. His stories are sometimes very scary and spooky! I know some adults that can’t take him.

@@WayneClark Huh? This is a family show dude, chill out. Enjoy and have fun here. Not everything is political.

The guy who left Roanoke to go back to England for 2 years when he came back they left him a note saying Croatoan. And Island 8 Mi South of Roanoke where they had troubles with the natives so they went to the Croatoan Island where they had good relations with the natives and then most of them went 50 miles Inland that's what their note said but the guy who came back to try to find them was too inept to locate them so he gave up after 2 months of lazily looking.

@@jorynickila7760 yes i have also seen the lemino video

My family always had the tradition, if you helped cook the food, you didn't have to do dishes!

Not only one day a year. We should count our blessings everyday. Especially here in the USA, since we have so much to be grateful for here.

@@beckysimeone4882 yes mam!

You are SO right. Every day I THANK God for all the blessings He bestows. I thank Him for the stores having what I need, and the money to buy those things. I thank Him for guiding me through the troubles I encounter. Just say I Thank Him all day and night for being there for me. Without Him, I’d be in a pickle.

Hear hear! (as in 'listen to and understand what was just said', it is NOT 'here here')

Amen! Not to mention thankfulness for Christ's work on the cross, the thing I'm most thankful for!

As of right now in there’s conversations in America as to whether this holiday is even appropriate in this day an age, knowing what we know now about early American Colonization. For instance ‘Christopher Columbus Day’ had been reformed to “Indigenous People’s Day” in acknowledgment of the atrocities he plagued on the original people of our nation. Thanksgiving, although it may keep its name in society has slowly evolved in meaning in the everyday American home. We don’t really focus on the pilgrims. Nor do we celebrate their arrival on this day. When I was In grade school we used to do arts and crafts, coloring picture of pilgrims and natives hugging and sharing turkey, something you probably wouldn’t see acceptable in a school setting today. The focus of thanksgiving has become “family” spending time with those you love and the friends you hold dear “Friendsgiving” lol try it!! It’s about being grateful and sharing your privileges with those who have less. It has a more unified message than historical one these days.

Very well said! Growing up on the reservation, we were taught the truth. We heard both sides of the story. It’s very unfortunate that it took so many generations to finally see that history is only told by the conquerors, not the perished. So much Native history is lost, and now what remains has been passed down all these years verbally, which historians total will not accept as factual events without documented evidence.

Or vanilla ice cream.

Pumpkin pie is merely a transport vessel for whipped cream!

Pumpkin pie needs to be officially replaced with good homemade pumpkin roll. Cream cheese icing as a filling beats whipped cream any day of the week.

F anyone in your life who thinks you deserve less of a celebration because of who you love. As a Conservative Christian with my own opinions on things, don't think folks like me don't think you deserve anything less than the best for you, your life, and your own happiness. Very well spoken comment that was accurate, but also sucked because you feel less than welcome anywhere. Anywhere is everywhere, and that's where you, and everyone deserve to be, and welcomed regardless. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from me and my family.

Your understanding of Columbus is ridiculous. He crossed the Atlantic four times. An unbelievable accomplishment. He was the equivalent of an astronaut. Be honest, your just jealous of European accomplishment, right?

@@tomcarl8021 Columbus' experience was absolutely impactful. So much so that it is easy to overplay it and make him not only a notable player, but seemingly the only one of any consequence. That slippery slope, and not his feat, is the point of contention for most people today.

@Tom Carl People forget about influential explorers when they obsess over Columbus. He doesn't have the claim of first person from the old world to reach the Americas (or to cross the Atlantic), that was Leif Erikson. He doesn't have the claim of exploring the territory of North America, that was John Cabot. He doesn't have the claim of exploring the territory of South America, that was Amerigo Vespucci. Christopher Columbus was a fool of his time. He believed the world was smaller than it is, while others knew it was larger than that due to experiments done by the ancient Greeks. If the East actually was directly west from Europe like he believed, he would have foolishly died out at sea before getting there. He only survived due to luck. When he arrived in what he believed to be India, he committed acts of brutality against the natives. Not only is this morally disgusting, but stupid on his part. If it actually was India like he had believed it to be, this would have made trading relations (which was the entire point of his mission) terrible between Spain and those in the East. When the royalty heard of what he had done in Spain they were so revolted that he was thrown in a cell. Let's be honest, you don't care about European accomplishment. You only venerate Christopher Columbus because there's a tradition to do so, and because of his brutality.

@@veemie8148 Actually, nearly all of the in depth histories I've read attribute any 'attrocity' doing to underlings who were left in charge. But you do you.

Christopher Columbus was nothing but a slave trading piece of 💩💩

This is very true. I know my family Lumbee decent call it Takesgiving. As the Europeans just kept on taking and taking. I really truly believe the stories that are told are whitewashed just as in the true story of Pochahontas.

@@kuririn1975 Agreed!

Thank you real facts

The requirements for thanksgiving is the ability to be thankful. No amount of turkey art can make an individual thankful

@@MorrisonScotch I am very thankful for my Turkey art. XD

I’m right there with as in I’m pretty sure that the revisionist and their politics will have believe it was all blood and guts with whitey being the culprit. You know, all that black and white thinking stuff.

Yep, lol