Native American Sunrise Ceremony

The Native American Sunrise Ceremony is held every year on Alcatraz

Island. This Native American Sunrise Ceremony is an occasion to honor and
give thanks to the Native American people. The unique thanksgiving of
1621 was intended to offer gratitude for the crop. This crop was possible
because of the assistance of the native people of America provided to the
Pilgrims. The year earlier than lots of Pilgrims had passed away because of
hunger. The Pilgrims learned from the Native American people about the
various types of agricultural methods which were very successful.

The story behind this ceremony is a very shaky one; in the middle winter of
1620 the Native Americans witnessed the arriving of the Pilgrims in the
region recognized these days as Plymouth MA. These people were though
not the first to arrive on these coasts. In the year 1614 some British voyagers
had previously arrived there. When they departed they picked 24 Native
Americans along with them as slaves and left gonorrhea, syphilis, and
smallpox. That disaster wiped the tribes of New England totally.

The fresh 1620 colonizers don’t know about farming as a result their harvest
failed disastrously. The following year William Bradford announced a three-
day banquet following the first harvest. It afterward turned into a portion of
the Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims did not term it that nor were the Native
Americans who are present at the feast still invite. The invitation was just to
head Massasoit and Squanto. They took their 90 brothers and sisters along
with them to the feast. As a result the Native Americans were never invited
back again.

By 1641 things had in fact started to go down and the upcoming of the
Native Americans neglected. A 1641 slaughter of the Pequot's in CT was
extremely triumphant so much, that the churches announced a thanksgiving
day to mark win over the at present ethnic first peoples. This was the day
when the term thanksgiving was first used. In addition at the same time
Manhattan’s Governor proposed the first use of selling of Native peoples of
20 shillings and 40 for every captives they can utilize to sell into slavery.
Authorization was allowed to enslave or rape any Native American women
and enslave any young person below 14. By 1675 the Native Americans
under Metacomet attacked back to retaliate. But Metacomet was tracked

Native American Sunrise Ceremony

down and terminated by the Europeans. Early American history set off to
respect those who would bestow to the racial extermination of the Native
Americans.

Thanksgiving originally a custom of the Native American People is an

occasion to offer thanks to the maker for the reward of the harvest and their
existence. As the final crops were collected, this time was taken to return
and offer thanks to the mother earth. Today thanks giving ceremony is
celebrated by the name Native American Sunrise Ceremony in which all
people offer thanks to Native Indian American for their contribution for this
country. Surprisingly, no one has ever put this amazing tradition into a film
such as Curt Johnson’s production company Indie Genius Productions. It
would surely be a story to become an Academy Award winner or fit into
Christian family film news for its traditions.

Native American Sunrise Ceremony