When did the Navajos do a holiday?
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depends on what holiday, Mabey you should refrase this
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Contrary to popular belief, it is not the Mexican Independence holiday(that is in September).  It is celebrated because that day marked the defeat of French forces against the Mexican Army.
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Thanksgiving at the White House, 2006\nThis year marks the 59th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation. Though live Thanksgiving turkeys have been presented intermittently to presidents since the Lincoln administration, the current ceremony dates to 1947, when the first National Thanksgiving Turkey was presented to President Harry Truman.\n\nPresidents traditionally have granted the National Thanksgiving Turkey a "pardon." After the presentation, the National Turkey and its alternate will be taken to Disneyland Resort and Theme Park in Anaheim, California to be a part of the holiday display and where they will stay the remainder of their natural lives. Both the turkeys will serve as honorary Grand Marshals for Disneyland’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade
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The original celebration can be traced to many Mesoamerican native traditions, such as the festivities held during the Aztec month of Miccailhuitontli, ritually presided by the "Lady of the Dead" (Mictecacihuatl), and dedicated to children and the dead. In the Aztec calendar, this ritual fell roughly at the end of the Gregorian month of July and the beginning of August, but in the postconquest era it was moved by Spanish priests so that it coincided with the Christian holiday of All Hallows Eve (in Spanish: "Día de Todos Santos.") This was a vain effort to transform the observance from a profane to a Christian celebration. The result is that Mexicans now celebrate the day of the dead during the first two days of November, rather than at the beginning of summer. But remember the dead they still do, and the modern festivity is characterized by the traditional Mexican blend of ancient aboriginal and introduced Christian features.
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Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, and in Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday in October. In the United Kingdom, Thanksgiving is another name for the Harvest festival, held in churches across the country on a relevant Sunday to mark the end of the local harvest, though it is not thought of as a major event (compared to Christmas or Easter) as it is in North America, where this tradition taken by early settlers became much more important. Other European countries, such as Germany, also have harvest-thanks (Erntedank) celebrations which are perceived to be rather minor and mostly rural holidays
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These are the recognized "day off" holidays...\n\nMonday, January 2* New Year's Day  \nMonday, January 16 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. \nMonday, February 20** Washington's Birthday \nMonday, May 29 Memorial Day \nTuesday, July 4 Independence Day \nMonday, September 4 Labor Day \nMonday, October 9 Columbus Day \nFriday, November 10*** Veterans Day \nThursday, November 23 Thanksgiving Day \nMonday, December 25 Christmas Day \n\nSee the site for more info...\nhttp://www.opm.gov/fedhol/2006.asp\n\nWikipedia has one of the most comprehensive lists of holidays that I have found so far...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holiday#National_holidays
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You are right!  My daughter is a tribal member and her tribe doesn't celebrate Columbus day- they just tack on an extra day of festivities during the Fourth of July (Chief Taholah Days). However, as far as a National American Indian holiday? There should be some!!
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oh yea sis! blaze it up! they should make it a holiday..lmfao! lets go to canada and visit one of those bud cafes!!..lol..
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Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November and has been since 1942. See the link below for more details.
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Wikipedia has a good article on this topic.  President Lincoln made it official national holiday to the last Thursday of November, but was later changed by FDR and by the Congress to the fourth Thursday of November.  You can read more details about it here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving#1939_to_present
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They usually do it Thanksgiving night. The same time every year. I'm not sure about the exact time.
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All federal holidays.
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The roots of this holiday go as far back as 1621 when the Pilgrims who arrived in the New World from England celebrated a particularly bountiful harvest following a very harsh winter earlier in the year.  \n\nThanksgiving was originally intended to be just that – a day of giving thanks for all that we have been blessed with:  homes to shelter us, food to sustain us, friends and family to support us, and the freedom to worship and live in any way that we might choose.   I could tell you that this warm and fuzzy sentimental tradition is still carried out today, but I would be lying.  Thanksgiving has become all about the food, and it is viewed as the final hurdle we must cross in order to unabashedly start reveling in the Christmas season. \n\nThe Pilgrims were members of the English Separatist Church, and sailed to Holland in order to flee from religious persecution.  They did experience more religious freedom while there, but became disillusioned with the Dutch way of life, viewing their way of living as ungodly.  Eventually, the Pilgrims managed to strike up a deal with a London stock company, who helped to finance this pilgrimage to America.  Oddly enough, only about one-third of those aboard the ship (for those of you who don’t know it was called the Mayflower) were actually religious Puritans.  The remainder of the men on board were hired by the stock company to protect their interests.  \n\nSo as the story goes, the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620.  The Pilgrims were unprepared for the harsh New England winter that lay ahead of them, and by the following fall 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower had perished.  However, the harvest of 1621 was bountiful, and the Pilgrims decided to celebrate with a feast, including the Indians who had helped them to survive through that first year.  The feast lasted for three days, and did not include the traditional items we think of when we think of Thanksgiving dinner today.  The meal included wild duck and geese, venison, boiled pumpkin, fish, berries, clams, lobster, dried fruit, and watercress.  \n\nThanksgiving was celebrated off and on over the next few hundred years until it was finally established as a legal holiday by Congress to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November every year in 1941.
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Thanksgiving was the official day that the Native Americans and the Pilgrims broke bread in peace to declare national and possibly international peace with the Natives' country.
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Well May 1st will be holiday.
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During the Battle of Puebla (May 5, 1862), invading French troops were repulsed there by a much smaller Mexican force under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza; thereafter the city was renamed Puebla de Zaragoza, and May 5th (Cinco de Mayo) became a Mexican national holiday. The Serdan brothers of Puebla played a major role in initiating the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
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The public holiday is to commemorate the first democratic election on this day in 1994