Happy Thanksgiving !

If you are not American, Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, some of the Caribbean islands, and even in Liberia.

It’s a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year, but has turned into a big commercial event that culminates the following day (Black Friday). It’s celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, and around the same part of the year in other places.

Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well and today, many question its place as it relates to the treatment of natives by European colonists.