"I
celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way.
I invited everyone in my
neighborhood to my house,
we had an enormous feast,
and then I killed them and
took their land."
You
know who he is….
Yeah,
the dark side of the Pilgrim saga…..
Stewart
says in a sort of funny way what many of us never knew or maybe just don't
think about too much….
In
fact, most of the indigenous peoples on the Atlantic coast in the 17th
century weren't killed by Europeans in battle…..they were struck down
by the diseases the Europeans brought to America.
Within
a generation or two after first contact with Europeans, 90% of the Indians were
dead.
That's
one of the reasons why successive waves of new colonists thought North America was
"an empty paradise"—most of the
people who had already lived there were gone.
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