Unit 6 - Off to the USA
Thanksgiving
At first, the Indians were happy to share Indians were ”wild”. They thought that
their land with the immigrants. The they had every right to farm the Indian
Americans celebrate a holiday called lands. They did not ask what the Indians
”Thanksgiving”. They do that because felt. Bit by bit they took the best hunt-
the Indians were so good to them when ing lands, the fields and even Indian
they came to America. They have cel- towns. The indians had to move to res-
ebrated this holiday since 1621. The ervations, – a small piece of land set
Indians believed that the land belonged aside for them.
to everybody. They called the earth
”Mother”. It gave them food, clothing
and shelter. And they took from it only
what they needed.
A sad story
Many of the settlers did not respect the
Indian way of life. They thought the
share dele
immigrant innvandrer/innvandrar
celebrate feire
hunting land jaktområde
reservation reservat