"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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The original feast would not have been possible without the natives,
(or at least would not be the event memorialized in history) and none
of them were thanking the European understanding of God. Most of them
likely felt they were receiving thanks for helping the new colonists
survive in the strange environment and for allowing the new colonists
to remain, largely unmolested, in their territory.


Every year at Plimoth Plantation (about 12 miles south of my house) they
re-enact the original "Thanksgiving". And every year the United American
Indians of New England (UAINE) stage a protest, sometimes with violent
results.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tha...tory/2558.html

Eisboch