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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. In the United States, Thanksgiving falls on the 4th Thursday of November.

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Thanksgiving

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  1. Thanksgiving • In the United States, Thanksgiving falls on the 4th Thursday of November. • Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festivalcelebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving was a holiday to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to God, family and friends for which all have been blessed of material possessions and relationships. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. This holiday has since moved away from its religious roots. • The precise historical origin of the holiday is disputed. Although Americans commonly believe that the first Thanksgiving happened in 1621, at Plymouth Colony, in Massachusetts.

  2. Voyage on the Mayflower • Take the Journey • Daily Life • Food, clothing, shelter, etc. • The Thanksgiving Feast • View Slideshow

  3. Letter From a Wampanoag - Will We Live in Peace? • The coat-men are still here, but we have had no contact with them. Some of the older warriors say that the strangers carry weapons that can take a swift bird from flight at a great distance. • After a time, scouts returned to where the ship was and found that it had gone. I busied myself practicing my hunting skills and helping to get ready for our move into the valley. My wish was that the strangers had gone back across the sea where they came from. I could tell that this is what the others wished as well, especially the elders. Our wishes, though, were not granted. The coat-men have been seen at Patuxet, where some of our People once lived. • Several years ago, when I was a young child, a great sickness came to our People. Many villages were almost wiped out. Patuxet was one of these. Maybe the sickness still lingers there, for some report that the coat-men are half the number that they were and that they are beginning to ache for food. There is much discussion about what to do. Some say that since they brought women and children with them it is a sign that they mean us no harm, and that we should help them. It is clear that they have no skill in hunting or fishing. Others say that they may be a valuable ally for us. Still others worry that they may war against us or kidnap our young men as other coat-men have before. I wonder if they intend to live peaceably amongst us?

  4. We Shall Remain: After The Mayflower • America AFTER Columbus! • History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But it’s actually a very different story. • When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn't exactly a "New World," but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals—and disease. • In the first 100 years of contact, entire civilizations were wiped out and the landscape was changed forever. A brutal war soon flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this “friendship” seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.

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