Thanksgiving for most Americans is just a holiday where they sit at a table and eat food they don’t even like that much.
The myth of Thanksgiving is a celebration of the Pilgrims’ successful harvest and how the Wampanoag people helped the Pilgrims survive and farm during the first winter. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, and was a celebration for a successful harvest.
But, that wasn’t how things happened years ago. What actually went down was that after another feast, in 1676, the Pilgrims celebrated upon the Wampanoag people defeats taking over more land, by sending rangers to slaughter lots of the Wampanoag people and came back with the chief, metacom’s head on a pike. And kept it there for 20 years, displayed in public.
Now this was because the Pilgrims of 1676 didn’t know the Wampanoag people as much as the Mayflower Pilgrims did, and as they didnt know them they by instinct saw them as threats. So next time you wonder about Thanksgiving, remember The truth of Thanksgiving.
works cited:
Hernandez, Beverly. “The First Thanksgiving.” ThoughtCo.newsela.com/view/cl8ykhekv00093b6az7fxklwd/?activityPanel=annotations. December 4, 2024.
