| The Native American Sunrise Ceremony is held | | | | Pequot's in CT was extremely triumphant so |
| every year on Alcatraz Island. This Native | | | | much, that the churches announced a thanksgiving |
| American Sunrise Ceremony is an occasion to | | | | day to mark win over the at present ethnic first |
| honor and give thanks to the Native American | | | | peoples. This was the day when the term |
| people. The unique thanksgiving of 1621 was | | | | thanksgiving was first used. In addition at the |
| intended to offer gratitude for the crop. This crop | | | | same time Manhattan's Governor proposed the |
| was possible because of the assistance of the | | | | first use of selling of Native peoples of 20 shillings |
| native people of America provided to the Pilgrims. | | | | and 40 for every captives they can utilize to sell |
| The year earlier than lots of Pilgrims had passed | | | | into slavery. Authorization was allowed to enslave |
| away because of hunger. The Pilgrims learned | | | | or rape any Native American women and enslave |
| from the Native American people about the | | | | any young person below 14. By 1675, under |
| various types of agricultural methods which were | | | | Metacomet attacked back to retaliate. But |
| very successful. | | | | Metacomet was tracked down and terminated by |
| The story behind this ceremony is a very shaky | | | | the Europeans. Early American history set off to |
| one; in the middle winter of 1620 the natives | | | | respect those who would bestow to the racial |
| witnessed the arriving of the Pilgrims in the region | | | | extermination of the Native Americans. |
| recognized these days as Plymouth MA. These | | | | Thanksgiving originally a custom of the Native |
| people were though not the first to arrive on | | | | American People is an occasion to offer thanks to |
| these coasts. In the year 1614 some British | | | | the maker for the reward of the harvest and |
| voyagers had previously arrived there. When they | | | | their existence. As the final crops were collected, |
| departed they picked 24 Native Americans along | | | | this time was taken to return and offer thanks to |
| with them as slaves and left gonorrhea, syphilis, | | | | the mother earth. Today thanksgiving ceremony |
| and smallpox. That disaster wiped the tribes of | | | | is celebrated by the name Native American |
| New England totally. | | | | Sunrise Ceremony in which all people offer thanks |
| The fresh 1620 colonizers did not know about | | | | to Native Indian's for their contribution for this |
| farming as a result their harvest failed | | | | country. Surprisingly, no one has ever put this |
| disastrously. The following year William Bradford | | | | amazing tradition into a film such as Curt |
| announced a three-day banquet following the first | | | | Johnson's production company Indie Genius |
| harvest. Afterward turned into a portion of the | | | | Productions. It would surely be a story to become |
| Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims did not term it that nor | | | | an Academy Award winner or fit into Christian |
| were the Native Americans who are present at | | | | family film news for its traditions. |
| the feast still invite. The invitation was just to | | | | Sadly, this tradition was made illegal in the United |
| head Massasoit and Squanto. They took their 90 | | | | States until 1975, but now because of it's cost, |
| brothers and sisters along with them to the feast. | | | | the tradition is once again looking to disappear. |
| As a result the Native Americans were never | | | | After witnessing the beauty of this sacred rite of |
| invited back again. | | | | passage, filmmaker/documentarian Curt Johnson |
| By 1641 things had in fact started to go down | | | | is working to keep this tradition alive. |
| and the Indians neglected. A 1641 slaughter of the | | | | |