Thanksgiving 2024

A Little Bit of Thinking
About Thanksgiving

The event that Americans commonly call the "first Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621. This feast lasted three days and was attended by 90 Native American Wampanoag people and 53 survivors of the Mayflower (Pilgrims).

The ancestors of contemporary Indigenous American peoples were members of nomadic hunting and gathering cultures. The earliest of these peoples to reach the Americas traveled in small family-based bands that moved from Asia to North America during the last ice age; from approximately 30,000–12,000 years ago, sea levels were so low that a "land bridge" connecting the two continents was exposed. Some bands followed the Pacific coast southward, and others followed a glacier-free corridor through the center of what is now Canada. *

The First Amerindian Natives are postulated to have come from Asia through the Bering land bridge between 30,000–12,000 years before the present (BP). These conclusions have been based on cultural, morphological and genetic similarities between American and Asian populations. Both Siberia and Mongolia have been put forward as the most likely places of origin in Asia. **

So, for your enlightenment, entertainment and general amusement, here is a colorful Mongolian Yodel, sung by Andreas.
Excerpt from the Compagnie Alain Germain production "In 80 Languages Around the World", performed at the Théâtre du Rond Point-Renaud Barrault in Paris, November 1994.
 
Amusically Yours,
Andreas & Ron
 
Sources:
* https://www.britannica.com
** National Library of Medicine
National Center for Biotechnology Information
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/