Paula Baxter’s Blog
Hopi Thanksgiving: Native Cultures Alive and Vibrant
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
I used that first part of the title on a previous blog I used to write. The illustration with it was from an old tourist picture postcard showing a Hopi family looking at their harvest. My point was that North America’s Natives have had a long tradition of thanksgiving celebrations, usually around harvest time in the fall. Our famous holiday based on the Pilgrims and a tribe of Massachusetts Indians was an event that did happen, although the cutesy connotations that have gathered around it sorely deserve — and have received — debunking. Nevertheless, it never hurts to point out that all of North America’s arriving immigrants, Spanish, French, or English, would never have survived in the New World for long without Native help.
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