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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s kind of nice because it’s a nothing holiday. Minimal decorations, no gifts and not as commercial as Christmas. It’s a bit of a sad holiday in that it’s about giving thanks to native people who went on to be slaughtered for their efforts. But that’s in the past. [/quote]

We aren't giving thanks to native people. That is not the history of Thanksgiving.  Some of you just make up stories in your head.[/quote]

I thought it stemmed from the early settlers who were posh English people and too dumb to figure out how to live off the land. Then they started starving and dying, and the local indigenous people took pity on them. They brought them food and helped them survive. Then of course they were rewarded with death later. Is that not correct? [/quote]

While there was an autumn feast in 1621, the actual holiday of thanksgiving did not take root until more than 220 years later.

Sarah Josepha Hale author of Mary Had a Little Lamb originally pushed for the creation of the holiday to heal the wounds from the Civil War.

https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-and-the-mother-of-thanksgiving

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sarah-hale

[quote]Hale used her persuasive writings to support the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Beginning in 1846, she charged the president and other leading politicians to push for the national celebration of Thanksgiving, which was then only celebrated in the Northeast. Her requests for recognition were largely ignored by politicians until 1863. While the nation was in the middle of the Civil War, President Lincoln signed into action “A National Day of Thanksgiving and Praise.” Hale’s letter to Lincoln is often cited as the main factor in his decision. Hale retired as editor in 1877 and died two years later at the age of 92.[/quote]

The concept of a national Thanksgiving did not originate with Hale, and in fact the idea had been around since the earliest days of the republic. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress issued proclamations declaring several days of thanks, in honor of military victories.

[quote]In 1789, a newly inaugurated George Washington called for a national day of thanks to celebrate both the end of the war and the recent ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Both John Adams and James Madison issued similar proclamations of their own, though fellow Founding Father Thomas Jefferson felt the religious connotations surrounding the event were out of place in a nation founded on the separation of church and state, and no formal declarations were issued after 1815.[/quote]

[b]On October 6, 1941, both houses of the United States Congress passed a joint resolution fixing the traditional last-Thursday date for the holiday beginning in 1942.[/b]

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