HappyThanksGiving 
In September 1620, a little ship known as the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, transporting 102 passengers—an range of religious separatists seeking a brand new home where they might freely practice their belief along with other individuals lured through the commitment of success and land possession within the " New World ". Following a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor close to the tip of Cape Cod, far north of the intended destination in the mouth from the Hudson River. 30 days later, the Mayflower entered Massachusetts Bay, in which the Pilgrims, because they are now generally known, started the job of creating a village at Plymouth.
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Lobster, seal and swans were around the Pilgrims’ menu.
Throughout that first brutal winter, the majority of the settlers continued to be aboard the ship, where they endured from exposure, scurvy and outbreaks of contagious disease. Only 1 / 2 of the Mayflower’s original passengers and crew resided to determine their first Colonial spring. In March, the rest of the settlers moved ashore, where they received an impressive visit from your Abenaki Indian who welcomed them in British. A few days later, he came back with another Native American, Squanto, part of the Pawtuxet tribe who was simply kidnapped by an British ocean captain and offered into slavery before getting away to London and coming back to his homeland with an exploratory expedition. Squanto trained the Pilgrims, weakened by lack of nutrition and illness, how you can cultivate corn, extract sap from walnut trees, catch fish within the rivers and steer clear of poisonous plants. Also, he helped the settlers forge an alliance using the Wampanoag, a nearby tribe, which may endure in excess of half a century and tragically remains among the sole types of harmony between European settlers and Indigenous Peoples.
In November 1621, following the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest demonstrated effective, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and asked several the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, such as the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now appreciated as American’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves might not have used the word in the time—the festival lasted for 3 days. While no record exists from the historic banquet’s exact menu, the Pilgrim chronicler Edward Winslow authored in the journal that Governor Bradford sent four men on the “fowling” mission when preparing for that event, which the Wampanoag visitors showed up bearing five deer. Historians have recommended that lots of the bathroom were likely prepared using traditional Native American spices and cooking methods. Since the Pilgrims didn’t have oven and also the Mayflower’s sugar supply had dwindled by nov 1621, your food didn’t feature pies, cakes or any other desserts, that have be a hallmark of recent celebrations.
Browse the Thanksgiving through the Figures infographic for additional details about how exactly the very first Thanksgiving comes even close to modern holiday traditions.
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Kids History: The First Thanksgiving | History
COMMENTS:
Joey Laren: Europeans came and killed 80% percent of all native Americans.
odblog: +PhuckHue2\nI'm guessing you're just trolling now.
Tom Rosas: No, the fact they were extremely clean meant they evolved to a weak imune system
waynebollman: This is a total lie.
Mile Jukic: +waynebollman \nIt's so …. American
Puglous: +waynebollman \nUh, no, its 100% true. Here's a first hand account:\n\nhttp://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/pdf/TG_What_Happened_in_1621.pdf
PhuckHue2: until the kids find out it was all about land stealing and indian genocide
Eleanor: … and then there was genocide on a scale that had never been seen before.
Puglous: +E Centimetres\nSo I guess any statistics on genocide are now unreliable?
Eleanor: That would amount to a sweeping generalisation, but given that any measurement of present population size on even a national scale is an estimate, it is guaranteed that estimates made retrospectively or by those with incentives to get it wrong are indeed less likely to be accurate. Really, observing Thanksgiving implies nothing about your generosity of spirit, as you've so deftly demonstrated.
Samuel Albert: THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DID NOT HAPPEN IN ENGLAND
Samuel Albert: THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DID NOT HAPPEN IN ENGLAND
Hermaeus Mora: Ah whitewashed history how i've missed you. +HISTORY you seemed to have left out spreading disease to the natives, killing the natives, stealing their land, and screwing over Massassoit's people.
Puglous: +Hermaeus Mora \nBecause none of that happened on the day Thanksgiving was modelled after you cynical, mean-spirited sack of dogshit. Do you spend Chinese New Year talking about the colonization of Tiawan and genocide of the Zunghar?
Larianna Joseph: lol played dominoes or something…or chest
Sprinkle CupCake: Larianna Joseph Yeah lol
Larianna Joseph: Sprinkle CupCake hello
Mary Bett: Hunger pilgrims go back America it is not your land.
George Washington: No
suze 96: George Washington 369 no-scoped the British.\n\n\nYes.