What happened to thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving, sadly, has transformed into a circus of gorging on turkey, dressing, and pies and later camping out at retail stores just for the opportunity of fighting other to get deals on consumer electronics.

In the context of what you are saying they could have perceived what would happen over the following few centuries It is now so commercial now that it doesn't even resembles like it did 50 years ago when I would have been learning about it Dune

this book might help you understand some things..http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059 it's a complex situation. The pilgrims didn't travel here to kill everyone and rape the land. Over time many sad and ugly things occurred, it's true. Not trying to paint over anything. But it's not a cut and dried case of a bunch of white people deciding to decimate everyone on another continent, and then going about and systematically doing that. Nor is it a case of all Native cultures (many many cultures and nations of natives here) living in peace and harmony with one another either. War is universal. Native cultures waged war on one another, and kept slaves (not all of them) etc etc. From all the history I've read, all through human history there have been terrible wars, genocide, slavery, torture and indignity. There is NO culture of people that have not at one time been conquered by another at great price and terror. No culture is blameless or untouched.

The first pilgrims were kind and they got along well, however the next generation took the native's hospitality for granted and got greedy. Eventually they killed them for land and food. It's one reason I generally dislike American history; there's a lot of bloodshed and unfairness.