[From "Happy Thanksgiving/Columbus Day"]
As usual, we celebrate turkey day in Canada by scoffing at pro-Injun activists and their baseless attacks on Chris Columbus , the man who made our modern world the wonder it was (and could be again).
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What everyone else here said. Also; "Indigenous People's Day" would be even better than "Leif Erickson Day".
But really; Columbus was awful....a mediocre explorer who landed in the Caribbean and a horrifying genocidal maniac who was so bad that even the Spanish Crown (of all people) though he was too extreme (especially since said natives were nothing but kind, friendly and accommodating when Chris and Co. first arrived).
Columbus is waaaaaaaaaay over-rated! Why he was picked as (big historical figure to honor) I have no idea!
As for Thanksgiving; It doesn't necessarily have to be about celebrating Pilgrims (or whatever the Canadian version would be about). In fact; The Pilgrim thing was a bit tacked-on. There were a number of different "First Thanksgivings" and the holiday was originally proposed to give thanks for stuff like the end of the Civil War or whatever.
Thanksgiving is a modern-day harvest festival/Pot-latch/etc. It doesn't have to be about Pilgrims if you don't want it to be.
Even the Pilgrim story (though heavily mythic and sanitized) has a genuinely nice message of survival, friendship and multicultural exchange. Sometimes myth has a certain "reality" that's as valid as anything....The Simpsons that was about Jebediah Springfield would explain it best....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast
@SpukiKitty :
Of course, reaction to the white people was mixed.
The native Mexicans, I think, thought the white people were gods.
@Blair
The native Mexicans, I think, thought the white people were gods.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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