You know, the video was interesting. But it all kind of goes back to my post before. The story book version of Thanksgiving is great and all, but what about the rest? I mean, we all heard the epic tale of how the settlers and Natives were friends, but the sun came up and reality set in. I just don't understand what was going through the settlers' heads. I mean the Natives could've destroyed them at the start of it all. But they didn't. The were kind they taught them their ways and were nothing but kind. And how did the settlers thank them? Well, lets start with they took their land, cut their hair, made them worship a god they didn’t believe in, and killed them. I really don't remember reading that I my story book, did you? And again I understand little kids shouldn’t know all of the murder and the things that can make a little mind go sour. But they can at least read about how not everything was a fairytale.
There isn’t always a happy ending, this one just happened to be one of the bad. I'm still not totally sure how this happened. I mean who honestly can take that many people, see the looks on their faces, and take their lives? Take their home, their food, and the way they live? The Natives may not have been living the "perfect" white man life. But they were happy and living their own life, in their own way. It just goes to show, you can't trust everyone. No matter how loyal or nice they seem. You have to watch your back.
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