History

The state of Oregon proclaiming thanksgiving as an official annual holiday to be celebrated in the state of Oregon. Statement: Coming up on the holiday of Thanksgiving and first beginning my research of such a holiday, I had mostly assumed there wasn’t really much to know about the celebration besides what sides go best with turkey and how to plan out how to devour as much delicious food as possible without becoming sick. From what I gathered in material to learn from, I can say now, everything I knew about Thanksgiving involving its history and creation, even effects and causes it had, was completely wrong. I think I can overall say, Thanksgiving is nothing of what it originally seemed to me. It was based on a faintly blurred story that wasn’t fully recorded correctly and is still today taught in a filtered manner. An idea was taken by many to mean a unifying and thankfulness for military victories, and was once fought for vigorously by many… And then, somewhere along t...