A Serving of Genocide With the Turkey

By Elton Camp Thanksgiving meat should be baloney Because the holidays origin is phony Pilgrims came to an inhabited land Got help from the natives at hand Without their assistance its clear They wouldnt have lived a year A big feast they were asked to attend Mainly for a treaty their rights to end They didnt call it Thanksgiving ay The intent was the natives to betray That feast wasnt repeated again !ather" many episodes of horrid sin #$uantos treaty was with a single tribe Pe$uot outrage was hard to describe %To that treaty we sure didnt agree &ts no good as anyone fair can see' To keep their land" Pe$uots fought As any proud people really ought (or the Green )orn (estival they came What happened then is a lasting shame #even hundred souls were sound asleep White men surrounded *em without a peep %We order you heathens to come outside' They were then shot" clubbed and died +ven women and children didnt survive But were cruelly" mercilessly burned alive A ay of Thanksgiving authorities decreed At how well the ghastly attack did succeed At their victory the colonists were delighted Attacks against many villages were e,cited (or &ndian scalps bounties were gladly paid #o as many murders as possible would be made

To the colonists the victories did belong They feasted as they sang a -oyous song .acked off heads through streets were kicked To show that the &ndians had been licked A chiefs head was mounted on a pole Where it stayed for /0 years we are told #o in a land were millions did reside All but a few of them ultimately died This isnt the warm" fu11y story from school But one of genocide so deliberate and cruel #o Thanksgiving ay & do not celebrate As to why" this true story & have to relate