As I often say - this is Turtle Island and was for thousands of years - then came the strangers and all hell broke loose. Or did it?
We just had an event " Thanksgiving" most Americans have not given a second thought - how it all began.
How could they when they do not read history and less do their own research - to find out how ignorant some are. We have to ponder - especially in these trying days - how our Nation evolved and why is there so much trouble - more divisiveness - today?
After having had their fill - a heavy laid lunch or dinner - we have now to deal with the situation at hand - COVID-19 pandemic.
Now - raging all over this land - we call the United States of America.
Our Nation is hurting - now we have the real and practical work to do.
We cannot keep on blaming DT all the time - all through his present dependency and when he leave - his TWEETS - his tantrums and more.
A demon like DT does not appear on the scene - without a reason - we must now do a sound needs assessment - and never, ever allow anyone - such as DT - interfere in creating such turmoil - further allowing our " enemies " - to interfere in our internal affairs.
We all treasure our Freedom. There is Freedom and there is License - abuse of Freedom is License.
We love our soldiers - we should allow no person - to call our soldiers losers and suckers.
We are a Republic - with checks and balance - we are people of Faith. We must unite - our heart in the right place. Only then can we go to a better place.
Guess what the transition team is still working hard - and so and so - has just realized - he lost the election. There is more to come.
We American treasure our tenacity and fortitude and will overcome any hurdles put in our way.
We have done it before and we can do it anytime - now.
To begin with for hundreds of years the indigenous people of Turtle Island had contact with the Vikings, the Russians, the Phoenicians, others, before the Pilgrims arrived on their ship and land at today's well known - Cape Cod Bay.
Half of them women and men of faith all White - they called themselves "saints" - we know them better as " Puritans ".
The other half of them named " strangers" - not simply because they helped pay for their voyage - that made the voyage possible - but belonged to the then current prevalent Christian faith in England.
You can imagine these Puritans escaped England to go to Holland - live in Holland for about a decade - did not like it.
Then decided to go to some land - where they could be free.
They waited and waited - the seats had to be paid for and they did not have it all - on the ship that was hired to take them across the Ocean Blue.
So the brokers of that fate trip - enticed the strangers - were encouraged to fill the seats - to gather the money - to make the pilgrimage of sorts - possible.
They contacted those that could make such a journey possible - who had controlled over land in the new found lands - stolen by the English. Now leased to the Puritans and Strangers - the Brokers happy - but were those who made this fateful trip.
We talk openly of the Colonists - be it the Belgians, the English, the Germans, the Spanish, French, the Italians, the Portuguese - others - all have blood on their hands.
More - dealing with slavery after stealing the land from indigenous people.
They thought of that period for God and King.
The actions committed starting with stealing the land - than persecuting the indigenous people - was horrific - and to this has left trauma, pain and suffering.
Those who chose to go to Turtle Island had no clue what fate would meet them.
They Brokers - much like the Insurance Companies and Banks, and Financial Institutions of today - always think how they could make a fast buck.
They had the Brokers of the time in England to help these poor souls armed with agreements that did not guarantee much - assured their passage - but no death insurance less liability worth the salt.
These Brokers could be likened to the Real Estate Moguls of today as previous mentioned - large Insurance Companies - who deal with such kind of nefarious activities - to this day. Milking the innocent and those who they prey - upon.
These Brokers at the last minute - before the departure of the ship prepared a document of sort - which sealed the fate of the " saints and strangers " - all White - each passenger was mentioned, they signed their name - the deal was sealed with an " Agreement ".
This agreement is now somehow linked to how the United States was created - not our Constitution - but closer to the " Bill of Rights".
How this is connection is made belies me - there were other settlements for sure - but this particular one - for some reason - convoluted as it is - has somehow been linked with Thanksgiving - a National holiday - fall of misconception and myth.
It is left to us who are citizens today - to clear the chaff.
Think anew that is if we have the "balls" - and put the sordid White men and his devious plans to rest once and for all.
We should not generalize - for those of you who think we should - and that is really what I mean - I do not - I say - discern.
For generations GREED has been the center of churches - Christian churches.
The first Christians had nothing - except their Faith - and thousands were killed just because of their Faith. The first Christian shared what they had - loved one another - second to none - and died for what they thought was right in their - heart.
As time went on - again and again GREED crept in within the Puritans.
They had fled to live a better life - judging no one - except every one thinking and expecting a better life - they wanted to create a more stellar community - with fortitude and tenacity.
Many who landed at Cape Cod Bay became sick - those who were healthy - nursed them - and yet many died.
They built their settlements - the land looked good - the seeds they brought - would not germinate. The Puritans were aghast - and soon they were at their wits - end.
One day an indigenous man walked and met the Puritans and he spoke English. He told the pilgrims - he had visited their country - and that he would help them - if they would. He told them his name was Squanto - and it would be a good idea to meet someone.
He told them of a Chief named Samoset who lived nearby and he could arrange for a meeting. Let us carry this conversation later.
We must delve into the beginnings of all this now found land and the pilgrims in the many books :THE MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE AND WAR by Nathaniel Philbrick.
THEY KNEW THEY WERE PILGRIMS by John Turner.
PILGRIMS OF PLYMOUTH by Susan Goodman.
WILLIAM BRADFORD OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION by William Bradford - and more.
We must read and research the facts for ourselves.
As - required reading and understand of such facts are not taught in school - elementary, middle or high school.
What is taught is some myth - some history that is his-tory - and lies and fables that should not be told that cloud the mind.
Thousands were killed - intrigue - lying - cheating - and this has been the on going nonsense - indigenous tribes has endured to this day.
The latest election - tallied the votes - and indigenous people who - tiled themselves by the name of their tribe - were put under a category - SOMETHING ELSE.
So the Mayflower sails and was headed for what we now know as New York - but landed further north - at Cape Cod Bay - in 1620.
The indigenous people previously had already made contact with Whites or strangers - having had contact with the Vikings.
Folks from present day Russia - mostly fur traders - and before that - thousands of years before the Phoenicians - world renowned sailors.
Let us stay focused on this issue.
To the North of Plymouth Bay - we had present day Canada controlled by the English and parts of that vast land - by the French.
The Jesuits missionaries and others documented a lot about the indigenous people in the area - that we know as Canada today.
Lewis and Clark and others have left us thousand of pages of documents - their travels - from their long journey - leaving Louisiana and traveling all the way following the Missouri and Mississippi River - over the hills and mountain - to what is now California.
They witnessed and saw the old growth forest - and that vast ocean - the Pacific Ocean.
They saw the land that was very fertile - the rivers and streams clean.
They saw the salmon and more in abundance - bears, deer, and more.
They saw it all and document sufficient for us to research their work and learn more.
The English had loose control of the vast land they controlled - and took every opportunity to tax those they controlled to fill the coffers Kings and Queen back home.
The English treated all those that they could control with utter disrespect. Using divide and rule - much as we have seen - in this Nation for the last 400 years - plus.
The English, as were the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, others - helping one another - practicing the most evil practice of treating humans like chattel slavery.
Slavery is something we must not forget about - and those who ancestors practiced it - have left tarnished future generation - some thing this is not so - it is - and forgiveness and health - does not only some with restitution via money - but good deeds.
The period from 1600 to 1776 - was what we describe today - like the wild, wild - West.
In the year 2020 - there are books that reveal the details but few choose to read the details.
Now let us rejoin Squanto aka as Tisquantum - who hailed from the Cape Cod Bay Area - an encounter with an English Captain - he was captured - sold as a slave - in Spain.
In the middle of what is happening - the pilgrims landing, many sick and dying, Tisquantum appears - he is better know as SQUANTO - as I have mentioned - before.
He is indigenous and speaks English?
Imagine the pilgrims and the strangers - seeing one day - in the midst of all the turmoil - an indigenous person - walking into the newly built settlement - speaking English.
Squanto who knew the nearby Chief Samoset - agreed to bring the Chief to visit the newly established settlement - and this he did.
Chief Samoset could not speak English - so we really do not know what Squanto had in mind.
I will digress a little to inform you earlier an English Captain had captured Tisquantum aka SQUANTO from the area where the settlers had settled and sold him to as a slave in Spain.
In Spain some monks bought him - and saw in Squanto someone the monks could learn more about the tribes - from the new found land - now know as the United States of America - then Turtle Island.
Eventually Squanto made his way to England - and made his way back to where he belonged.
Squanto was ready to act as a translator - and managed to teach the pilgrims how to grow corn - indigenous crop - as the seeds the Pilgrims brought were no good.
He taught them how to fertilize the earth - with fish - that was found in abundance from the near by river and streams.
The result soon there was a bumper harvest - wild fowl and other animals could be hunted and for a decade - all seems to be fine.
It is a know fact - that exactly where the Pilgrims settled - once years ago - the indigenous people had settled.
Some disease adversely impacted them - they deserted the land - and now the Pilgrims were using the same site - a different people and a different mission.
President-Elect has his work cut out for him -
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