Real Name: Mike Austin Gender: male Date of Birth: August 20, 1950 Member Since: October 11, 2005 Last Signed In: October 09, 2008 Profile Views: 2608 Blog Views: 14660 Achtung! Gotten Himmel! Stop The Presses - Keep the Loon Over For Another Shift Charges Leveled That O.J. Jury Just Settling A Score 700 Mil...., No, 800 Mill, and Rising........ The Fall Classic - Classic Results, and a Prediction Prime Rib Wandering Aimlessly, While Folks Trample One Another That's 700 Billion Folks....With a B(u) A Cool Hand Indeed I Am Bad....Am I Bad? Bump Post..... Reddy Kilowatt - Wanted Dead or Alive - or Live Better Electrically October 05 November 05 December 05 January 06 February 06 March 06 April 06 May 06 June 06 July 06 August 06 September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 
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Geronimo's Cadillac - The Myth of Thanksgiving
As much as I love to tell stories(and I certainly will continue to), and blog about life on the coast or in the mountains, or my kids adventures, I am going to allow myself one more walk on the dark side of an American tradition. In addition, for all you kids working on your thanksgiving projects with pictures of pilgrims and happy natives and doomed birds, at the end of this piece, I am going to spill the beans on a secret I know about Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny.
Try as I might, I just have a hard time getting into the tradition of Thanksgiving. Don't get me wrong, I dig four days off as much as the next guy. That in itself, is reason enough to celebrate. I tried to do some research on Thanksgiving this morning, using Google. I tried Apache Thanksgiving, Comanche Thanksgiving, Navajo Thanksgiving, Kiowa Thanksgiving, Karankawa Thanksgiving (anyone see a pattern here?), but there just wasn't much. One little piece on the Kiowas caught my eye. An interesting little dining ritual that the Kronks practiced did as well. All in all though, about all I could find, was that most all of the Indian Nations' tribal offices would be closed over the Thanksgiving weekend. Reckon why the original inhabitants of this greal continent don't celebrate this "holiday"? I'm guessing that it has something to do with a WWII type campaign of extermination, broken treaties, being herded on to reservations and stripped of their dignity and heritage. The difference in this campaign and the WWII re-creation of it, was that in our case,the invading army prevailed. After a couple hundred years, a token attempt at acknowledging the wrongs committed against our native population has been mounted, in the way of allowing casino gambling on the reservations (as long as the casino floats), and oh yeah, we get to tax them through the nose on their gambling income. I just find that far too little and far too late. If I were a Native American, I would certainly find this holiday a cause for protest rather than a reason for celebration. Happy Black Friday! Oh, by the way kids.....the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Santa, They are all nocturnal....... 0 comments from 0 users
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