This brings up an interesting thought, maybe some of you would like to
comment on.  When two cultures interact, are ideas and practices given or
stolen from one to the other.  Are new emigrants given the right to
celebrate existing customs or do they steal the right to celebrate
practices commonly in use.  At what point does a new idea, gained from a
different culture, become part of the gaining culture.  Where does
responsibility end for and action taken by the individual, a culture, a
nation?
charles




John White <[log in to unmask]>@asu.edu> on 11/16/2000 09:59:58 AM

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My guess is that if you check close enough you would find the "first "
Thanksgiving
wrapped up in a ceremony practiced by the NE Native Peoples as the
Midwinter
Rites.  We not only took their pumpkins , mincemeat, succatash and turkey
but their
holiday as well.      John

"Lyle E. Browning" wrote:

> Christopher Fennell wrote:
>
> > Announcing a new book by James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz --
> >
> > Now available:
> > "THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony."
> >
> > Beginning with an eyewitness account of the first Thanksgiving
>
> Wrong. Unless they were snowbirds going south for the winter. Far be it
from me
> to be immoderately iconoclastic, but the Pilgrims celebrated the second
> Thanksgiving, not the first. That honor went to Berkeley Plantation in
Charles
> City County, Virginia. It was so decreed by then President Kennedy.
>
> I, too, was taught the Pilgrim Thanksgiving factoid in grade school and
find it
> amusing that it's still a prevalent misconception.
>
> Anyone for correcting the history books or do I hear an historical
steamroller
> in the distance?
>
> Lyle