Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

--- Michael Adams <abrigon@...> wrote:


<snip>
> But heh, people today think Thanks Giving is for the
> pilgrims,
> but in reality it was about giving thanks for the US
> Constitution, but hard to fix food and theme for
> that.
>
> Mike
Thanksgiving was celebrated more than 150 to 200 years
before the constitution existed.

>From Wikipediea: Following a nineteenth century
tradition, most Americans believe that the first
American Thanksgiving was a feast that took place on
an unremembered date, sometime in the autumn of 1621,
at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts.
...Thanksgiving observance until 1623 — and that was a
religious observance rather than a feast. [1]

The nineteenth century reinterpretation of the 1621
festival has since become a model for the U.S. version
of Thanksgiving, but it was an established tradition
before the popularization of the Pilgrim mythology.
For example, the modern Canadian Thanksgiving was
brought to Canada by United Empire Loyalists after the
American War for Independence.

The first known thanksgiving feast or festival in
North America was celebrated by Francisco Vásquez de
Coronado and the people he called "Tejas" (members of
the Hasinai group of Caddo-speaking Native Americans)
on 23 May 1541 in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, to
celebrate his expedition's discovery of food supplies.
In the sense of a feast in gratitude to God celebrated
by Europeans in North America, this has a claim to be
the true first north American Thanksgiving. The next
was apparently celebrated a quarter-century later on
September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida. When
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed, he and his men shared
a feast with the aboriginal peoples. Later, the
aboriginal people called themselves "apple-tangerines"
(which may or may not indicate those fruits were on
the menu at that "Thanksgiving"). Another candidate
for the first true Thanksgiving in territory now part
of the United States is the feast that the party of
Don Juan de Onate celebrated April 30, 1598 near the
site of San Elizario, Texas with the Manso Indians
(Adams and Kendrick).

--gary