The Truth About Thanksgiving

The Truth About Thanksgiving By Elton Camp The Thanksgiving story taught in the school Those ignorant of history is intended to fool A splinter group of Puritans the Pilgrims were To call them “fanatics” is truth, not some slur They came intending to take Indian lands away Wanted to establish Kingdom of God they say Their own religious beliefs intended to impose With woe and death to any resisters of those Deceptions, treachery, torture, war, & genocide All of these, to reach their goals, they tried The Wampanoag Indians helped them survive But to totally wipe them out, later they did strive Their reason for inviting Indians to eat was cruel They were buying time until they could come to rule It was a treaty they wanted with Indians to work out So they could take over their lands without any doubt To shift the balance of power they needed more time To be able to kill the Indians and complete their crime And that is exactly what finally came to take place The way the Indians were treated was such a disgrace Because its true history is as grim and unsavory as this, Thanksgiving’s a day some Native Americans will miss Though not that they’re trying to be vindictive or mean Rather, due to its start, it reminds them of things unclean