As a national holiday, Thanksgiving originated as war propaganda. It was Abe Lincoln in November 1863 who made Thanksgiving a national holiday. The Union Army under Grant had finally won a battle at Shiloh, and the victory called for celebration. American Indians, or native Americans as some prefer, give no thanks for the Europeans’ arrival or for Lincoln’s victory over the Confederacy. No sooner than Sherman and Sheridan had raped and pillaged the Confederacy than they were sicced on the Plains Indians, Ralph K. Andrist chronicles their extermination in his book, The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian. The invasion of the … Continue reading
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