Show t Indians tell revised story of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated by most Americans to Lord s blessgive thanks for the Turkey-feastings for the past year family gathering and football games are expressions of modern Amenca Little thought is given to the American Indians' part in the Thanksgiving story Misconceptions of Thanksgiving are discussed in "Thanksgiving s Ked hlk prepared by Carmeiita Thomas It was given to Utah State students of elementary-educatioand Cache alley elementary teachers to help give of the young students a truer view history of the holiday Thomas suggests that the majority of people have -misconcephat really- occurred tions about The two races of people who met at that lime need to be portrayed In America the best looking skiers wear layaways avafabfe In order to give the an idea of the Indian rendition of n the Thanksgiving story the must realize that historic!-lliving with nature was the mam concern of this country s inhabitants This was a fundamental belief and a religion in its own right according to Thomas paper Prayers of thanksgiving expressing appreciation were a way of life and these prayers for allowing life were a daily ntual The presentation begins by noting that Thanksgiving was first declared a national holiday by President Lincoln in 1H63 The proclamation states that the last Thursday in November would be declared a day of prayer and thanksgiving for the early European efforts to survive so that this country could be established It goes on to explain why the Indians of the Eastern states look upon Thanksgiving as a day of mourning rather than as a time for rejoicing According to the script Indians had already- been in contact with - English ©MF? lluutosfShoo BANKCAKft vmcoMB before the Pilgrims arrived One of these was traded Captain Thomas Hunt who with the Indians as early-- as 1614 1094 N MAIN Kirk Johnfton center —Free Painting classes — Do-it-yours- elf -- paint brushes sprays other supplies -- (provided & sold) —Make nice gifts MAKE YOUR OWN: PLAQUES PLANT PEDESTALS CANDLE HOLDERS LAMPS FbASTERWBRKS 750 W 2nd N Rocksprings Development 72-9- The next contact that the Pilgrims had with the natives was with Tisquantum known as Squan-t- o in the history books Tisquan-tubefriended the whites and gave them food and taught them to plant com The Pilgrims entered into a treaty with Massasoit leader of the W’ampanoag tribe The treaty forbade the Indians to harm any of the white settlers It also required that the Indians be unarmed when they s entered the settlement The also agreed to defend the Warn-panoag- pilgrims from attack from aha neighboring tribes However within 50 years follow ing the first celebration masum of native villages by whit m wars broken promises and broke treaties resulted in almost told destruction of the Wampanoagud other N w England nations Each year at Plymouth Rod there is a Thanksgiving ceremony given by the townspeople with many speeches for the crowds xho come In 1970 the Massachusetts Department of Commerce H the W'ampanoags to select a speaker to mark the 350lh Pilgna anniversary Frank Janies a Wampanosg descendant of the nation who mst the pilgrims was chosen to delnw the speech But administrators I charge of the ceremony would not allow him to read it Instead of the traditional Thanksgiving blessing speech he dealt with the disap pearance of the Wampanoag tribe The giving of thanks has beat traditional part of the lives of both the while and Indian people It is Thomas’ intent to have I day's children value the contributions made by Indians and whites to the rich tradtions Crusade for Christ open to all 752-M7-1 iaaaa explorers He captured 27 native Americans and sold them as slaves in Spain Other expeditions also engaged in slave trading These expeditions brought with them many diseases Native people had no immunity to these and suffered severe losses Of an estimated thousand inhabitants of southern New England 90 percent died in the 100 year period following European contact When the Pilgrims arrived they began to explore Cape Cod They dug up graves and took the food that was stored in them This angered the Indians and they attacked the Pilgrims but were driven off by the explorers j j j Campus Crusade for Christ International is an student Christian movement that emphasizes man's need to personally know God Its members believe that a person must have a heartfelt understanding of four basic biblical principles before knowing God First the bible teaches that God loves us and offers the best plan for our lives Secondly man cannot know or experience God’s love because he is sinful and separated from him Third Jesus Christ is the only way to know and experience God s love because he is the only provision for man's sin Fourth in order for a person's knowledge of Christ to be more than a philosophy stale ritual or religion we must individually as an act of our will accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord Only then does a person become a Christian in the Biblical sense of the word In an effort to objectively confront students with the person of Christ we have sponsored the multi-medi- a Drramueaver as presentation well as a series of College Life meetings Much of our interaction with Do you believe in the devil? A Louis Harris of survey Americans 18 years old and older asked: "Do you believe in the devil or not?" According to the results 53 percent said that they did 30 percent said they did not believe in the devil 12 percent said it would depend on how "the devil” is defined and five percent said they were not sure The survey was taken in April of 1974 students occurs through individual e with appointments them Over the Thanksgiving holiday Campus Crusade for Christ is holding a conference in the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City for students from campuses in Utah Idaho and Montana The conference will include three speakers good group singing a special con-- a Thanksgiving Day feast id small group interaction over c tent covered by the speakers Everyone is welcome to atted CCC Dwf weekly meetings of the are held on Tuesday evenings at! cert in Room 225 of the pm Center Studeif 1 Small group Bible studiee ell available around campus for those interested r |