USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The event that Americans commonly call the “first Thanksgiving” was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621. This feast lasted three days and was attended by 90 Native American Wampanoag people and 53 survivors of the Mayflower (Pilgrims).

Detailed explanation-2: -Now remembered as American’s “first Thanksgiving”-although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time-the festival lasted for three days.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historians long considered the first Thanksgiving to have taken place in 1621, when the Mayflower pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts sat down for a three-day meal with the Wampanoag.

Detailed explanation-4: -In fact, it took place over three days sometime between late September and mid-November in 1621, and was considered a harvest celebration. “Basically it was to celebrate the end of a successful harvest, ” says Tom Begley, the executive liaison for administration, research and special projects at Plimoth Plantation.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are only two surviving documents that reference the original Thanksgiving harvest meal. They describe a feast of freshly killed deer, assorted wildfowl, a bounty of cod and bass, and flint, a native variety of corn harvested by the Native Americans, which was eaten as corn bread and porridge.