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RUSH: Now, we\u2019ve gone through the past couple of days The Real Story of Thanksgiving. It\u2019s a tradition on this program on the day before Thanksgiving to actually read that story from one of my two best sellers, but there\u2019s a story in the Madison (Wisconsin) Capital Times today. The headline: ‘The Pilgrims Were Really Grave Robbers.\u2019 The story is by Mike Ivey. <\/p>\n

‘Everything you know about the ‘first\u2019 Thanksgiving is wrong. Plymouth Rock. Pilgrims. Perseverance. Big feast. Happy Indians sharing in the bounty. It\u2019s all bunk, except maybe the part about eating turkey. Early settlers were so hungry they ate about anything with fur or feathers. Otherwise, there is little connection between reality and the version of Thanksgiving events still taught in most schools. That point was hammered home Sunday by award-winning filmmaker Patty Loew. A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Loew was the keynote speaker at the third annual ‘Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration\u2019 held at Lakeview Lutheran Church on Madison\u2019s north side. Loew said the problem with the traditional Thanksgiving story is that it plays to the American version of history where peace loving English settlers tame the wilderness and survive attacks from the bloodthirsty Indians. ‘It\u2019s the quintessential American holiday,\u2019 she said. ‘It involves escaping danger, surviving in a harsh environment, carving out a new life.\u2019 Unfortunately, Loew says, the whole Thanksgiving story is nothing but myth. In reality, the Indian tribes living along the Eastern seaboard had been decimated by disease in the years preceding the storied landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620.\u2019<\/p>\n

What was it that destroyed the Indians? Give me a guess, Mr. Snerdley. From this wacko leftist historian, what was it, what decimated the Indians? Well, yes, it was bubonic plague, but who brought it? Right. ‘An epidemic of bubonic plague, most likely, ‘ most likely, ‘brought to the New World by European fishermen in 1617, had killed an estimated 90 percent of the Native population by the time the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts.\u2019 The program observer has a question. What\u2019s the question? Mmm-hmm. I don\u2019t know why the white guys never caught anything from the Indians in history, but let me stick with this because this gets even better. Okay, so where are we now? In 1617 early-arriving European fishermen brought bubonic plague that wiped out 90% of the Indians. When the Pilgrims showed up, what they found ‘were empty villages with crops still in the field because the Indians had either died or left.\u2019 Now, wait just a second, now. Just a second, now. ‘The more religious of the settlers — only 32 of the 102 who landed at Plymouth were actually Pilgrims — thought the existing villages and cleared fields were a sign that God was providing for them. Other settlers took to digging up the graves of Indians, picking through the housewares, blankets or weapons buried with the dead. ‘So the first Thanksgiving in America was actually held by grave robbers,\u2019 said Patty Loew, filmmaker. <\/p>\n

‘Loew challenged the audience to tell the correct version of events and think about what it means when they celebrate this Thursday with family or friends. ‘We\u2019re not just talking about feel good history, but history that reflects the truth,\u2019 said Loew, a longtime local TV anchor who serves as associate professor of life sciences communications at UW-Madison. … If the crops were still standing in the fields–‘ I guess 90% of the Indians must have just died overnight, you know, right before the harvest. ‘If the crops were still standing in the fields and they were robbing graves, why didn\u2019t the Pilgrims get the bubonic plague?\u2019 What spared them from getting the bubonic plague that these European fishermen trucked over in 1617? Thanksgiving was not the first year, either. It took a long time here for the Pilgrims to have enough of a life to be thankful for anything, to anybody. This is the multicultural curriculum. You sit here and tell jokes about it, ‘Oh, yeah the early white Europeans they brought syphilis. They brought environmental destruction,\u2019 but it\u2019s being taught. It\u2019s being taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and there were 200 people that showed up for this film documentary on the ‘history\u2019 of the first Thanksgiving. <\/p>\n

Well, let me tell you something. I know it can\u2019t be proved because of the two words ‘most likely.\u2019 The Indians were ‘decimated…most likely by a disease.\u2019 It can\u2019t be proven. Nobody knows. This is just a multicultural curriculum which is designed to get as many little kids as possible to question the decency and the goodness of their own country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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