Canada's out. Technically, I think it should only be celebrated in Massachusetts, as that's where the whole deal supposedly happened. If anything, in a sensible world the rest of the country would have declared it a day of mourning, as it's a symbol of the events that lead to our ****ed-up Puritan heritage. But in reality, corporations take any excuse for a national holiday they can get to sell **** to people.
Anyway, yeah, this deal always comes up aroung Thanksgiving, basically because the whole point was how terribly nice the Indians were in saving the Puritans' dumb arses from starving to death, in the handful of years before the Puritans returned the favor by slaughtering the lot of 'em and kicking the handful of survivors out into a ghetto as bad as any seen in South Africa or Germany, slaughtering them some more, and forcing them into the wasteland, where most of their descendants remain to this day. It's pretty hard to put the white guy in any positive light, there, especially since modern white Americans on the whole are completely and wholly unabashed and unapologetic about a genocide that made Hitler look soft and cuddly, and especially since we're still ****ing them over royally. Everyone refuses to admit what happened, or when forced into facing facts deny that there's any association between that and themselves.
