Some of the Real History and Meaning of “Thanksgiving”

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This Thanksgiving celebrate ‘far and away the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world’; Unthanksgiving Day and National Day of Mourning protests expose the real story of the first settlers; the bloodbath after the federal government 50¢/scalp offer to anyone who kills a native American; and the year whites become a minority in the US.

Seek truth from facts with Ihanktonwan First Nation hereditary Chief Phil Lane, Mexica Movement Director Olin Tezcatlipoca, Atsina tribe member Lenore Stiffarm, who suffered sexual abuse from the Catholic Church at an ‘Indian boarding school’, Savage Anxieties author Professor Rob Williams, and Daniel Sheehan of the Lakota Child Rescue Project.

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RT: The horrorsof Thanksgiving and America as a white future minority. Coming up.

Announcer: ‘Far and away the most massive genocide in the history of the world.’

The lowest life expectancy in the West.

And the year the US will turn native.

RT: Virtually none of Thanksgiving has an ounce ofaccuracynotes the bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me. The idea of Europe bringing civilisation to the Americas simply flips truth on its head.

This is what European explorers actually found in North America.

1518 European Expedition to North America: Far and away the most beautiful city on earth. Five times the size of London or Rome. Great towers and buildings rising from the water.

60,000 gleaming houses, and how spacious and how well built they were, of beautiful stonework and cedarwood and the wood of other sweet scented trees.

The many streets and boulevards of the city were so neat and well swept, despite the multitude of inhabitants.

Criss-crossed was a complex network of canals, like an enormous Venice, but also remarkable floating gardens that reminded of nowhere else on earth.

RT: While Europe was drinking water from polluted city rivers, huge aqueducts transported America’s water from fresh springs.

1518 European Expedition to North America: But what impressed most were the special merchant areas where timber and tiles and other building materials were bought and sold, as well asgreengrocerstreets where one could buy every sort of vegetable, fruits, honeys, nut paste and chocolates.

Astonished by the personal cleanliness and hygiene of the colorfully dressed populace, and by their extravagant use of soaps, deodorants, and breath sweeteners.

RT: Most Europeans never bathed and kept clothes on at all times. The Pilgrims, notes biographerFeenieZiner, had a terrible smell. Indians triedwithout success, to teach them to bathe.

The settlers also had bad breath from rotting teeth. Death and starvation was so common that corpses were just dumped in open pits known as ‘poor holes’. Many turned to alcohol and committed suicide.

In fact the story of the first settlers has been deliberately changed, notes author James Loewen, because the truth’s so shameful. They actually settled hundreds of miles further south, and stayed in America because the mission was a failure. Their real aim, reports historian RobertBeverley, was to find some gold and take it back to Europe.

Robert Beverley,History and Present State of Virginia: They spent their days digging random holes in the ground, haplessly looking for gold instead of planting crops. Soon they were starving and digging up putrid Indian corpses to eat. They took some Indian prisoners and forced them to teach the colonists how to farm.

RT: And the meal with the natives wasn’t quite the Thanksgiving shown on TV and in schoolbooks.

Robert Beverley, History and Present State of Virginia: The colonists offered the Indians a toast to eternal friendship, whereupon the chief, his family, advisors, and two hundred followers dropped dead of poison.

RT: In mainstream history books perhaps the most common description of American territory then is ‘virgin land’. In fact, notes historian Francis Jennings, it was widowed.

Horrific enough the Nazi ethnic cleansings in Europe during World WarTwo, leading American studies professor David Stannard notes it’s dwarfed byfar and away the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world.’ The death of one hundred million indigenous people in theAmerican Holocaust.

Some from disease, but also vast numbers from a deliberate policy aimed at wiping out the race, that mainstream history books continue to pretend never happened.

He notes when Heinrich Himmler called the final solutiondelousing, Himmler was only echoing thePilgrim army’s rallying crynits make licenits being Indian babies.

This was a map of Indian nations across the US, 80 per cent of the first government’s entire budget went on attacking existing Indian settlements to take their developed farmland. The settlers would most probably not have survived, writes Jennings, on their own.

95% of America’s entire population was then wiped out. American Holocaust notes there is documented evidence of colonist leaders going town after town deliberately killing all men, women and children. Yet school texts and history books remain silent.

Orders came from the very top. Under the direct order of George Washington, at least 28 of 30 Seneca towns and all the towns of the Mohawk, Onondaga and Cayuga were simply obliterated. George Washington wrote the Indian countrymust be destroyed.

Thomas Jefferson called topursue Indians to extermination.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Theodore Roosevelt called beneficial‘ the eradication of the native race.

Stannard notes genocide was official public policy. California Governor Peter Burnett in his 1851 message to the legislature.

Peter Burnett, California Governor(1849-1851): Extermination must continue to be waged until the Indian becomes extinct.

RT: Another governor issued the public proclamation topursue, kill and destroyall Indians. A witness notes the ensuing bloodbath practically wiped out the native race.

Theodore Johnson, Sights of the Gold Region: The whites shoot them down like wolves, men, women and children, wherever they could find them. This war of extermination against the aborigines is tending to the final extinction of the race.

RT: What reportedly saved the race from extinction was their use as slave labor.

Theodore Johnson, Sights of the Gold Region: This extermination policy has proved so injurious to the interests of the whites. Indian labor is indispensable.

RT: Highly prized slaves were Indian girls as young as three, said the Marysville Appeal, for fulfilling double rolesof labor and of lust.

Phil Lane is hereditary chief of Ihanktonwan First Nation. Phil really great to see you, what has been airbrushed out of history?

Phil Lane, Ihanktonwan First NationIt was practices that sometimes you don’t want to speak about. And they not only wiped out most of the people but the way they did it,the greatest loss of people at any time in history.

RT: Cultural genocide is still being waged on surviving Indians, reports Truthout. From the start of the 20thcentury, children were forced into so-calledIndian boarding schools, designedto’killthe Indianin them according to the system’s founding father Richard Pratt.

Indians are obliged to change their name to a western one like Tom, made to dress and style their hair like whites. Indigenous Americans are also forced to adopt Christianity and all other parts of western culture.

RT:Lenore Stiffarm witnessed the abuse first hand, thank you so much for speaking to us. Can you tell us what happened?

Lenore Stiffarm, Atsina Tribe: Federal policy here was to take the Indian out of the person. They beat the language out of my father when he grew up, his whole life his hands were kind of bent. As a result he used to talk our native language but he never wanted me to learn. I consider myself a recoveringCatholic because of sexual abuse that I experienced from the Catholic Church

RT: Daniel Sheehan says the genocide is continuing. He’s helped start the Lakota Child Rescue Project to stop the forcible removal of Indian children. Daniel thanks a lot for coming on, could you tell us what is happening to the children?

Daniel Sheehan,Lakota Child Rescue Project: We discovered not only were the children being taken on an epidemic level, it was happening in every single one of the reservations and virtually in every of the major cities.

The International Convention against Genocide actually has a provision which expressly identifies what’s going on as genocide. That the systematic undertaking on the part of the racially dominant culture in a given nation state, taking away indigenous children from their native tribes and putting them in the white culture has been identified as genocide.

RT: Even the Supreme Court still upholds natives’second-classstatus to this day, writes noted legal scholar Robert Williams. He joins us now, it’s really great to speak to you, can you give ussomeexamples?

Professor Robert Williams,author of Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western CivilizationOne out of three Indian women will be raped during their lifetime, in 86 per cent of those cases the victims report that it’s a non-Indian that perpetuated the sexual assault or the rape. This has been traced directly to the inability of tribes to prosecute these crimes.

One of the points I make in my book Savage Anxieties is if you look at the history of the more’civilised nations’treatment, so-called more’civilised treatment’ of indigenous people, it really makes you wonder who are the savages and who are the more civilised.

One very famous study done found that every single treaty that the United States negotiated with tribes had in fact been breachedatone time or another or had been violated.

The Supreme Court said they had no property rights and therefore no rights to just compensation, and there was some horrible language in the opinion about how the courtrecognizesthat everyone knows that the savage tribes of America were conquered and the treatiesaremeaningless anyway.

So this perpetuation of these stereotypes in this case, which is still valid law in the United States, it’s still a valid precedent.

Belva Thunder Hawk Matthews, Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota: And so they drink it, but it’s actually hairspray.

RT: Native Indians now have the highest rate of suicide and pandemics of cancer in the WesternHemisphere. At 44, life expectancy is lower than Afghanistan, and around the same as Europe at the time of thePilgrims.

For an official banquet to celebrate 350 years sincePilgrims landed, authorities invited native Indian Frank James to speak. But when they saw his speech, taken from a settler’s own account of what really happened, they wouldn’t let him read it.

Frank James, Wampanoag leader: The Pilgrims had hardly explored the shores four days before they robbed the graves of my ancestors, and stole their corn, wheat, and beans. The Indians knew this fact, yet welcomed and befriended the settlers, little knowing that they would be killed by the settlers’ guns. What has happened cannot be changed, but today we work toward a better America, a more Indian America where people and nature are once again important.

RT: Frank has helped start a National Day of Mourning each Thanksgiving, a protest over the Plymouth harbor and Mayflower replica.

On the West Coast thousands also gather for Unthanksgiving Day, calling on the US to honor treaties promising Indian rights and international law.

The American government faces increasing domestic and international pressure.TheSupreme Court has reaffirmed the validity of the Treaty of Fort Laramie, giving Indians rights over the area.TheUnited Nations, despite four countries voting against – Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States – passed a resolution declaring indigenous peoplesright to self rule.

The UN is also calling for the States to return to Indian tribes their stolen land.

The Mexica Movement wants to bring indigenous people of America in a single nation without, it says, the artificial borders created by Europeans.The movement’s director Olin Tezcatlipoca joins us, really great to see you, you say demographics are on your side.

Olin Tezcatlipoca, Director, Mexica Movement: We are projected to be the majority in the states of California and Arizona and basically the Western United States. In the next 50 years we’re going to be the majority in the United Statesof America.

For the European who’s scared about all this I’d say pull a seat over, because that’s what we’ve been doing for 500 years. We’ve been scared of all the monstrosities that Europeans have done to us,they’ve exterminated 95% of our population, they’ve stolen 100% of our land, they’ve left us in poverty on our own land.

RT: Many cities throughout the US are already majority indigenous. In eight years, eight more states are projected to be white minority. In 30 years, that will apply to the United States as a whole.

The reaction of certain Americans is already causing some surprise.

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