NO THANKS NO GIVING - Collège version

No thanks. No giving

NO THANKS? NO GIVING.

Thanksgiving: it's a whole other story

Can you guess what the expression "talk turkey" means?

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talk turkey

The Native Americans raised wild turkeys long before the first European settlers arrived. During colonial times, there were often disputes between the settlers and the Native Americans over the trade of wild turkeys. The turkeys were thus used as negotiating tool.

The Story of Thanksgiving

Watch the video.

• Who is this video made for?

• How do they present the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Natives?

• All in all, what image of Thanksgiving do they show?

a day of celebration

Many Americans consider Thanksgiving one of their most popular and precious national holiday, almost as important as Christmas. It is a time of celebration and family gatherings filled with laughter and joy.

Thanksgiving

Watch the video and note down the words that are associated with Thanksgiving

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Observe the list of words associated with Thanksgiving and classify them into positive and negative terms.

Compare it with the words that you wrote in your mindmap

Watch the video and note down the words that the Natives associate with Thanksgiving

Observe the list of words associated with Thanksgiving and classify them into positive and negative terms.

Compare it with the words that you wrote in your mindmap

a day of mourning

Many Native Americans actually consider it a "Day of Mourning," because the story overlooks how the European settlers killed indigenous communities.

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A timeline of Native American Lands LOSS

Lives on the Rez

You've been formally invited...

It is Harvest Feast Days that some non Native persons may recognize as a type of Thanksgiving ceremony - they are centuries old and centuries older than those ceremonies of the early Scandinavians, Italians, Portuguese, Pilgrims, Puritans, Spaniards, Polish, Dutch, French, Acadians, Huguenots, English, Germans, and others who came and took land from the Indigenous peoples. [...] The native thankfulness for crops and months later for surviving the winter, all shown in Feast Days, is thousands of years old - 12,000 to 48,000 or more years old in America and part of thse traditions came from East Asian countries from where Native North Americans migrated over time. Today, these festivals of thanksgiving to the Great Spirit and to nature for crops and life are still celebrated in homes, at Pow Wows and reservations. Many nations have thanked the Great Spirit for providing abundance after the first full moon of September.

"Native American Harvest Feasts Before Thanksgiving", Patty Inglish HS, Owlocation.com, 2018

native traditions

Do the Native celebrate Thanksgiving?

Native American Harvest Feasts are celebrated each November, during Heritage Month, since 1990

Pow Wows are social gathering organised by different Native American communities

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Exprimer la cause

It is Harvest Feast Days that some non Native persons may recognize as a type of Thanksgiving ceremony - they are centuries old and centuries older than those ceremonies of the early Scandinavians, Italians, Portuguese, Pilgrims, Puritans, Spaniards, Polish, Dutch, French, Acadians, Huguenots, English, Germans, and others who came and took land from the Indigenous peoples. [...] The native thankfulness for crops and months later for surviving the winter, all shown in Feast Days, is thousands of years old - 12,000 to 48,000 or more years old in America and part of thse traditions came from East Asian countries from where Native North Americans migrated over time. Today, these festivals of thanksgiving to the Great Spirit and to nature for crops and life are still celebrated in homes, at Pow Wows and reservations. Many nations have thanked the Great Spirit for providing abundance after the first full moon of September.

"Native American Harvest Feasts Before Thanksgiving", Patty Inglish HS, Owlocation.com, 2018

They were blamed for lying He was exposed for having told lies

En français avoir + participé passé ex: merci de m'avoir invité En anglais for + V-ing ex: thank you for inviting me

Find two structures in V-ing to express cause in the text!

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TOO LATE TO APOLIGIZE?

In 2009, President Obama signed the Apology to the Native Peoples of the United States. “The United States, acting through Congress, apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by citizens of the United States, [and] expresses its regret for the ramifications of former wrongs and its commitment to build on the positive relationships of the past and present to move toward a brighter future where all the people of this land live reconciled as brothers and sisters, and harmoniously steward and protect this land together.”

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Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 (H.R. 3326), Section 8113: “Apology to Native Peoples of the United States.”

1. What is Obama apoligizing for?
2. Is it "too late to apologize"?

What are you thankful for?