USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -As was the custom in England, the Pilgrims celebrated their harvest with a festival. The 50 remaining colonists and roughly 90 Wampanoag tribesmen attended the “First Thanksgiving."

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Massasoit (chief of the Wampanoags) and William Bradford (governor of the Plymouth colony) were two people who attended the first Thanksgiving.

Detailed explanation-3: -Massasoit sent some of his own men to hunt deer for the feast and for three days, the English and native men, women, and children ate together. The meal consisted of deer, corn, shellfish, and roasted meat, different from today’s traditional Thanksgiving feast. They played ball games, sang, and danced.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture, ” says the United American Indians of New England. They’ve marked the occasion as a day of mourning for 48 years, according to Native Hope.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Indians in attendance, the Wampanoag, played a lead role in this historic encounter, and they had been essential to the survival of the colonists during the newcomers’ first year. The Wampanoag were a people with a sophisticated society who had occupied the region for thousands of years.