It makes for pleasant pageants, but it obscures the ugly reality of what the coming of the white man really meant to the nation`s original inhabitants. Patriotic legend calls for including generous Indians bearing gifts of venison in Thanksgiving celebrations, like exotic stage props. why did the pilgrims kill the natives 07 Jan. To celebrate Thanksgiving Day is to celebrate the butchering of Native Americans, and as a Black man living in America that is something that I will never be able to celebrate. That November, the ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in. It`s also true that the Pilgrims, while they accepted the Indians` help, regarded their benefactors as satanic and savage heathens. Some 100 people, many of them seeking religious freedom in the New World, set sail from England on the Mayflower in September 1620. It`s true that the Indians treated the Pilgrims with decency and helped them through that first awful winter. Both were reacting from ignorance and fear and according to the rules their separate, conflicting cultures had taught them. Despite the Pilgrims` convictions that they had a direct pipeline to God, neither side had a corner on decency. It`s that there were atrocities on both sides. The point here isn`t who deserved to win the terrorize-thy-neighbor sweepstakes. The Indian leader`s widow and child were sold into slavery. Silverman argued that the friendly association of pilgrims and Indians, and the Wampanoag people in particular, to Thanksgiving is an invention of the late 19th and early 20th century. The victorious Pilgrims displayed Philip`s head in Plymouth for the next 20 years.
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