Happy Thanksgiving Hive

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My favorite holiday we Americans get to enjoy is today: Thanksgiving Day. It's a day for feasting with loved ones and friends, traditional foods from the Americas the early immigrants not only enjoyed, but depended on for their very lives, like turkey and cranberries, corn, pumpkin pie, and more. The day is set aside to consider all the blessings we enjoy and give thanks for them.

Hive is, of course, global and international, so probably many of you aren't familiar with American holidays. But all of us have things to give thanks for, and people we love we can sit at a table with and break bread. This is a good day for it. Every day is.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving.

i wonder if you read the message re. health i sent you a month or so ago on matrix?

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I hadn't. I dunno why it didn't send alerts. I have now, as I dropped everything and read it when I saw this message this morning. I am deeply grateful for the specific and particular resources and knowledge you have shared. Your kindness really gives me something to be thankful for today!

Thanks!

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Thanksgiving is certainly an important day as it’s not, in my current understanding, related to any religious things that may or may not be legitimate. It’s about being with family and friends and appreciating the things we are lucky for.

Happy thanksgiving to you and your family man! Hopefully you get to spend a full day with all the loved ones around.

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I am going to bake my very first cake. Should be good.

Thanks!

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That’s awesome, baking is a lot of fun. Just treat it like a precision carpentry project, it’s not forgiving if there’s too much or too little of baking soda and things like that!

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I love science, and science is all about metrics, so I am particular about recipes. That's one of my favorite parts - besides the good food.

Thanks!

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Tell that to the Indios. It's only a holiday if carnage and s reminder how their ancestors were slaughtered.

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I have many times. I was raised among the Tlingit, who were never conquered, and were probably the reason the Russians sold Alaska.

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Órale, I didn't know they had influenced that sale. I read somewhere that they were forced to sell. Alaska is a very strategic spot for the military as I see it. I wouldn't know exactly, Alaska history is no my forté.

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The Tlingit made it impossible for the Russians to keep it. When the Russians fired up the cannon to lay waste to their villages, the Tlingit moved camp across the island, and then sent warriors to grease up and swim out to the ships at night and bash holes in their hulls with rocks. Without cannon the Russians couldn't conquer, and without ships the Russians didn't have cannon. The Americans never tried AFAIK. They just moved in and traded, which suited the Tlingit fine because they liked the trade goods.

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Sounds like a movie waiting to happen. You being a tlingit ancestor in the making, I find it better to ask you, what do you recommend for reading on your history to be most accurate?

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I am clueless as to written material on the history of Tlingit interactions with Russians or the early American settlers. Sheldon Jackson was one of the earlier American settlers, and there is a college in Sitka bearing his name, so perhaps searching his works might turn up good material. All the things I have related here were oral history I heard from friends I grew up with.

I am not Tlingit, but grew up amongst them.

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Fellow Alaskan? I'm a transplant of 15 years and also had Tlingit neighbors in Sitka for a short spell.

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I wasn't born there, but I was raised there. Raced snowmobiles on Swan Lake, hike and hunted all across Edgecombe from Mud Bay to Shelikof, Verstovia, up on top of Katlian, and up to Blue Lake, even to Green Lake, fished the Sockeye run at Redoubt, where the lake dumps right into the bay, trolled for Kings everywhere, and took Coho in Katlian Bay. I remember Sitka well, even 40 years after I left.

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Dear @valued-customer !
Did you eat turkey for Thanksgiving?
I assumed that the women in the painting were wearing traditional Dutch women's clothing.

https://www.expatica.com/nl/lifestyle/culture-entertainment/traditional-dutch-clothing-1302630/

I assumed you were of Dutch descent, like Joseph!😄

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There are many here of Dutch heritage. Swiss as well. Pioneer families that were industrious and succeeded early tend to dominate regions where they settled, and a few bloodlines emerge in western America because of this trend. I am more Norse and French/English with a taste of Native American, with no known specifically Dutch heritage.

I prefer red meat or pork to fowl, and dined on ham with few sides. Because holiday grocery supplies tend to be targeted at large family feasts, the many side dishes that have attained traditional status quickly become far too much food for smaller get togethers, so I did ham instead of turkey because turkey requires stuffing, mashed potatoes and giblet gravy, and cranberry sauce, which is just too much food to be able to eat before it goes bad. I made a strawberry cake, some carrots, and had some sweet potatoes, and will add some cherry pie to the winter fattening Thanksgiving always begins.

Thanks!

Edit: I almost forgot the pumpkin I have awaiting the pie it will become.

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