Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian neighbors!
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CowboyRon
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poncho62
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What did Chris do to offend anyone???
Thanks for acknowledging our holiday. Thanksgiving comes earlier here as by the time November comes around, many of us are covered in snow.....lol
bcjmmac
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Thanks as well - no day off for me, heading to Denver to pick up an airplane. ��
Way things are going Thanksgiving Day will be renamed after our election - continental invasion day or some other virtue signalling drivel.
Way things are going Thanksgiving Day will be renamed after our election - continental invasion day or some other virtue signalling drivel.
CobyRupert
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Google is your friend.
...but I'm sure Ellen DeGeneres would go to a ball game with him though.
We only have Columbus day to appease Italian Americans and as a result of the Knights of Columbus lobbying in 1934.
Columbus made all natives he encountered slaves. He then demanded they find gold that didn't exist. He would cut the hands off anyone over age 13 and let them bleed to death if they didn't find it. He and his men would kill, torture, dismember, and rape indiscriminately and with impunity. We're are talking 10's of thousands of people. He once kidnapped a dozen women (some already married, some children) to provide "comfort" to a boat load of men he was taking as slaves to Europe.
From Wiki:
Slavery and serfdom:
The natives of the island were systematically subjugated via the encomienda system implemented by Columbus.[141] Adapted to the New World from Spain, it resembled the feudal system in Medieval Europe, as it was based on a lord offering "protection" to a class of people who owed labor.[142] In addition, Spanish colonists under his rule began to buy and sell natives as slaves, including children.[143]
When natives on Hispaniola began fighting back against their oppressors in 1495, Columbus's men captured 1,500 Arawak men, women, and children in a single raid. The strongest were transported to Spain to be sold as slaves;[144] 40 percent of the 500 shipped died en route.[53] Historian James W. Loewen asserts that "Columbus not only sent the first slaves across the Atlantic, he probably sent more slavesé*�bout five thousand葉han any other individual."[145]
According to Spanish colonist and Dominican friar Bartolom de las Casas's contemporary A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, when slaves held in captivity began to die at high rates, Columbus ordered all natives over the age of thirteen to pay a hawk's bell full of gold powder every three months. Natives who brought this amount to the Spanish were given a copper token to hang around their necks. The Spanish cut off the hands of those without tokens, and left them to bleed to death.[53][146] Thousands of natives committed suicide by poison to escape their persecution.[144]
Violence towards Natives and Spanish colonists
During his brief reign Columbus was reported to have executed Spanish colonists for minor crimes as well as use dismemberment as another form of punishment.[147]
Columbus's soldiers killed and enslaved with impunity at every landing. When Columbus fell ill in 1495, "what little restraint he had maintained over his men disappeared as he went through a lengthy period of recuperation. The troops went wild, stealing, killing, raping, and torturing natives, trying to force them to divulge the whereabouts of the imagined treasure-houses of gold."[148] According to Las Casas, 50,000 natives perished during this period. Upon his recovery, Columbus organized his troops' efforts, forming a squadron of several hundred heavily armed men and more than twenty attack dogs. Dogs were used to hunt down natives who attempted to flee.[144] Columbus's men tore across the land, killing thousands of sick and unarmed natives. Soldiers would use their captives for sword practice, attempting to decapitate them or cut them in half with a single blow.[149]
The Arawaks attempted to fight back against Columbus's men. When taken prisoner, they were hanged or burned to death. Desperation led to mass suicides and infanticide among the natives. In just two years under Columbus's governorship, over 125,000 of the 250,000 natives in Haiti were dead,[53] many died from lethal forced labor in the mines, in which a third of workers died every six months.[150] Within three decades, the surviving Arawak population numbered only in the hundreds.[150] "Virtually every member of the gentle race ... had been wiped out."[144] Disease, warfare and harsh enslavement contributed to the depopulation.[151][152][153]
Within indigenous circles, Columbus is often viewed as a key agent of genocide.[154] Samuel Eliot Morison, a Harvard historian and author of a multivolume biography on Columbus writes, "The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."[155] Loewen laments that while "Haiti under the Spanish is one of the primary instances of genocide in all human history", only one major history text he reviewed mentions Columbus's role in it.[156]
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cqaigy2
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Interesting history on Canada Thanksgiving.
bcjmmac
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Pretty much the same, without football. Turkey, ham, prime rib are 3 staples - potatoes, fall veg & pumpkin pie as well.
Depending on your version of history, ours started with the first French colony (Port Royale) in what is now Nova Scotia. Company of Good Cheer is what I think it is commonly translated as.
Depending on your version of history, ours started with the first French colony (Port Royale) in what is now Nova Scotia. Company of Good Cheer is what I think it is commonly translated as.