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European adaptation of celebrating bringing home the harvest - as in, we get to eat this winter instead of starving to death = Thanksgiving.
As for stealing the land from the "Native Americans" - I hate to point it out to you, OP, but the Indians are or were squatters, wandering down from Canada where they illegally immigrated from Siberia. There are no native anythings, they are all immigrants - from Africa, so does that make us all African-Americans, or African-New Zealanders, or what ever your place of birth happens to be?
Ohg yeah, and lest we forget - there was plenty of lust for power, land and wimmins going on in the Indian nations. They are and were no better or no worse than white eyes.
According to the still-debated New World migration model, a migration of humans from Eurasia to the Americas took place via Beringia, a land bridge which formerly connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait.[12] Falling sea levels created the Bering land bridge that joined Siberia to Alaska, which began about 60,000 - 25,000 years ago.[12] The minimum time depth by which this migration had taken place is confirmed at 12,000 years ago, with the upper bound (or earliest period) remaining a matter of some unresolved contention.[13] These early Paleoamericans soon spread throughout the Americas, diversifying into many hundreds of culturally distinct nations and tribes.[14] The North American climate finally stabilized by 8000 BCE; climatic conditions were very similar to today's.[15] This led to widespread migration, cultivation of crops, and subsequently a dramatic rise in population all over the Americas.
According to the oral histories of many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, they have been living there since their genesis, described by a wide range of traditional creation accounts.[18] The Na-Dene people occupied much of northwest and central North America starting around 8000 BCE. They were the earliest ancestors of the Athabascan- speaking peoples, including the present-day and historical Navajo and Apache. Their villages were constructed with large multi-family dwellings, used seasonally. People did not live there year round, but for the summer to hunt and fish, and to gather food supplies for the winter.[19] The Oshara Tradition people lived from 5500 BCE to 600 CE. The Southwestern Archaic Tradition was centered in north-central New Mexico, the San Juan Basin, the Rio Grande Valley, southern Colorado, and southeastern Utah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
Out of curiosity, just how long does one have to live somewhere before they become a "native"? 8000 + 2000 (give or take a few) would strike me as long enough to claim ownership, even by todays laws.
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