Re: [LAAMN] THE STORY OF THANKSGIVING, Thanking Indigenous People for the Food We Eat

[scotpeden]

Property RIGHTS turns Stewardship of the land, into Ownership of the land,
and removes all responsibility for maintaining the longevity/productivity 
of the land.

And we have what we have reaped, Global Warming is but a symptom of our
portable wealth economic structure.

A Day of thanks for what we are learning about what our actions cause,
or. Shop till you drop tomorrow, you'll have yours, maybe the world
won't end drastically till after you pass on.

Scott
Live simply, so that others may simply live.

> From: Sid Shniad
>
> November 22, 2006
>
> THE STORY OF THANKSGIVING
>
> "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful
> to
> miss it."
>
> – Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
>
> THE STORY OF THANKSGIVING, in the rich MaxSpeak tradition, is here.
> [http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr040.shtml]
> Or maybe it's here. [http://www.eatel.net/%7Ewahya/thksgvg.html]
>
> MaxSpeak Summary: the Puritan Christian fundamentalists, of whom the
> Pilgrims were a subgroup, were murderous, treacherous swine who made a
> treaty with the indigenous people around Plymouth until they had enough
> forces to wipe them out. This they later did with smallpox and guns,
> unless
> they were able to sell them into slavery, all of course for the greater
> glory of Jesus Christ.
>
> Wait a minute. That wasn't quite right. Let's try it again. Here's how it
> goes.
>
> The Puritans in England were subject to religious persecution, lo unto
> death. They needed a homeland where they could survive as a people and
> live
> in peace. They tried to settle in the Netherlands, but it proved
> inhospitable. Only the possibility of the New World seemed to beckon. It
> was
> a land without a people, and they were a people without a land.
>
> Upon settling around Plymouth, the first Puritans (Pilgrims) established
> amicable relations with the Wampanoag Nation. The Wampanoag had already
> been
> depleted by disease brought by previous settlers. They were also subject
> to
> aggression by other Native American groups, so their alliance with the
> Puritans became an outpost of peace and freedom in the New World.
>
> As more Puritans arrived, they required more breathing space. The
> Wampanoag,
> like other indigenous peoples, lacked a modern system of property rights.
> They did not see fit to build fences, put up street signs, or establish
> variable-rate mortgages. The Puritans remedied these defects of indigenous
> culture. It just happened that the Puritans ended up owning all the
> property, and Native Americans themselves became classified as property.
>
> Taking umbrage at this advance of Judeo-Christian civilization, the
> indigenous people reduced themselves to terrorism. Some were sufficiently
> maniacal as to sacrifice their own lives in order to murder innocent
> settlers. There was a veritable cult of death. Underlying this
> irrationality
> was a primitive religious belief system that celebrated exterminating
> one's
> enemies, as well as the consumption of locoweed and psychedelic mushrooms.
>
> In short, the natives hated the settlers for their freedom and no longer
> greeted them as liberators. They meant to establish dominion over the
> entirety of Europe by summoning the Great Spirit as a weapon of mass
> destruction.
>
> As a matter of self-defense, the Puritans were compelled to rise to the
> challenge of this clash of civilizations and wage a pre-emptive war of
> extermination of both the terrorists and the societies that nurtured them.
> There was no middle ground; you were either with them or against them.
>
> Those Native Americans who were willing to live in peace were provided
> with
> alternative living arrangements, under the protection of the new
> government.
> Sadly, they proved unequal to the rigors of modern society and eventually
> disappeared, although they were given the opportunity to experience
> democracy before their demise.
>
> Today we, "the people who build square things," celebrate Thanksgiving as
> a
> tribute to their memory, and to the invaluable assistance they unselfishly
> provided for the Christian arrival to America.
>
> Now please pass the gravy.
>
>
>
> * * *
>
>
>
> From: "RICHARD MENEC" <  menec...@shaw.ca>
>
>  
> http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19672.cfm
>
> Thanking Indigenous People for the Food We Eat
>
> By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq.
> Organic Consumers Association: November 24, 2009
>
>
> This Thanksgiving, the Organic Consumers Association gives thanks to the
> indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere for their contributions to
> agriculture.
>
> 75% of the food crops grown in the world today were first cultivated by
> Native Americans. These include corn, beans, peanuts, cotton, potatoes,
> tomatoes, chili peppers, avocados, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries,
> squashes, black walnuts, pecans, chocolate, tobacco, rubber, and
>

[LAAMN] THE STORY OF THANKSGIVING, Thanking Indigenous People for the Food We Eat

[Ed Pearl]

From: Sid Shniad 

November 22, 2006

THE STORY OF THANKSGIVING

"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to
miss it." 

– Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

THE STORY OF THANKSGIVING, in the rich MaxSpeak tradition, is here.
[http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr040.shtml]
Or maybe it's here. [http://www.eatel.net/%7Ewahya/thksgvg.html]

MaxSpeak Summary: the Puritan Christian fundamentalists, of whom the
Pilgrims were a subgroup, were murderous, treacherous swine who made a
treaty with the indigenous people around Plymouth until they had enough
forces to wipe them out. This they later did with smallpox and guns, unless
they were able to sell them into slavery, all of course for the greater
glory of Jesus Christ.

Wait a minute. That wasn't quite right. Let's try it again. Here's how it
goes.

The Puritans in England were subject to religious persecution, lo unto
death. They needed a homeland where they could survive as a people and live
in peace. They tried to settle in the Netherlands, but it proved
inhospitable. Only the possibility of the New World seemed to beckon. It was
a land without a people, and they were a people without a land.

Upon settling around Plymouth, the first Puritans (Pilgrims) established
amicable relations with the Wampanoag Nation. The Wampanoag had already been
depleted by disease brought by previous settlers. They were also subject to
aggression by other Native American groups, so their alliance with the
Puritans became an outpost of peace and freedom in the New World.

As more Puritans arrived, they required more breathing space. The Wampanoag,
like other indigenous peoples, lacked a modern system of property rights.
They did not see fit to build fences, put up street signs, or establish
variable-rate mortgages. The Puritans remedied these defects of indigenous
culture. It just happened that the Puritans ended up owning all the
property, and Native Americans themselves became classified as property.

Taking umbrage at this advance of Judeo-Christian civilization, the
indigenous people reduced themselves to terrorism. Some were sufficiently
maniacal as to sacrifice their own lives in order to murder innocent
settlers. There was a veritable cult of death. Underlying this irrationality
was a primitive religious belief system that celebrated exterminating one's
enemies, as well as the consumption of locoweed and psychedelic mushrooms.

In short, the natives hated the settlers for their freedom and no longer
greeted them as liberators. They meant to establish dominion over the
entirety of Europe by summoning the Great Spirit as a weapon of mass
destruction.

As a matter of self-defense, the Puritans were compelled to rise to the
challenge of this clash of civilizations and wage a pre-emptive war of
extermination of both the terrorists and the societies that nurtured them.
There was no middle ground; you were either with them or against them.

Those Native Americans who were willing to live in peace were provided with
alternative living arrangements, under the protection of the new government.
Sadly, they proved unequal to the rigors of modern society and eventually
disappeared, although they were given the opportunity to experience
democracy before their demise.

Today we, "the people who build square things," celebrate Thanksgiving as a
tribute to their memory, and to the invaluable assistance they unselfishly
provided for the Christian arrival to America.

Now please pass the gravy.

 

* * *

 

From: "RICHARD MENEC" <  menec...@shaw.ca>

 
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19672.cfm

Thanking Indigenous People for the Food We Eat

By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq.
Organic Consumers Association: November 24, 2009


This Thanksgiving, the Organic Consumers Association gives thanks to the 
indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere for their contributions to 
agriculture.

75% of the food crops grown in the world today were first cultivated by 
Native Americans. These include corn, beans, peanuts, cotton, potatoes, 
tomatoes, chili peppers, avocados, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, 
squashes, black walnuts, pecans, chocolate, tobacco, rubber, and sunflowers.

In "Pristine Nature: The Founding Falsehood," Steven H. Rich explains that 
the New World that European colonists believed was a miraculous wilderness 
was actually a "human-created landscape full of food and useful plants":

Native Americans had managed the woodlands and grasslands to produce native 
game animals, native birds and fish, berries, nuts, greens, fruits, bulbs, 
corns, mushrooms, roots, basketry and cordage materials, firewood, 
weapon-making and building materials, medicines and ceremonially important 
plants. Many 'wild' native plants that exist today are in fact the products 
of ancient Native American genetic selection and propagation projects that 
favored be