A history of Thanksgiving you've never heard

by Winter Rabbit
from DailyKos

"In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them."

"It may be demanded...Should not Christians have more mercy and compassion? But... sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents.... We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings."

—Puritan divine Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana

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(There is more, with links, here.)

Crossposted at Native American Netroots & Progressive Historians