Over a hundred years into Europeans exploring, trading, and slave-taking in mainland North America, one particular English dude jotted down a few notes. “Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruits of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the Company almost a week, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deer, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governor, and upon the Captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.” –Edward Winslow, December, 1621 There are themes of friendship and togetherness and resilience in the face of adversity in the mythology around this event. Almost everything we say about this holiday is false. The truth behind the lies needs to be explored. The story of Thanksgiving is often made to sound like it was where Europeans and Native Americans met. That is far from the truth. Tisquantum knew English because he had been kidnapped and enslaved and escaped at least once. The Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic once. Europeans made settlements in many parts of mainland North America long before the Pilgrims did, but often the explorers who thought they were the first arrivals found that Native Americans were already familiar with them. Europeans like to trade for furs and Verrazzano and Ponce de Leon met indigenous people. Before the 1621 feast with the Pilgrims, those expeditions were going on for a long time. The Wampanoag arrived as families with women and children, suggesting that they were more interested in peace than the all- male contingents of fishers and traders. The Pilgrims were lonely, starving, and stupid, unsure of how to survive in what they saw as the wilderness, according to the PeanutsThanksgiving special. The Wampanoag helped them as an act of generosity. The politics on both sides were complicated, and the two groups were able to make a strategic alliance. The Wampanoag believed the English could be an ally against them. The Pilgrims liked the idea of protection, and they needed trade partners to be able to send back goods like fish and furs to the investors who had funded the whole Mayflower venture in the first place. The Pilgrims stole corn from another tribe in order to make up for their lack of food.
Everyone is happy at the end of the Thanksgiving legend. The Indians went missing.
Part of the ending is false. The Wampanoag want their history and land to be recognized. Every year on the fourth Thursday in November, the United American Indians of New England observe a National Day of mourning.
The Pilgrims were justified in taking over the new lands for themselves. The Almighty said so. The Pequot War of 1637 and King Phillip's War of 1675 were the bloodiest wars on US soil.
The son of the saCHEM who made the initial peace treaty with the Pilgrims is known as the King Phillip. The war ended when described by the History Channel.
The English-Indian soldier John Alderman shot and killed King Philip on August 20, 1676, at Mount Hope. King Philip was hung, beheaded, drawn and quartered. His head was placed on a spike and displayed at Plymouth colony for two decades.
It's true, but with a lot of things that aren't true. They had already left England. They were going to leave Holland.
The Pilgrims were looking for a place where they could practice the version of Christianity they thought was best, not where everyone could practice whatever religion they wanted. The expedition was backed by investors, and they were motivated by money as well. Historian John Turner summarized his work on the internet.
The Pilgrims more or less had enjoyed “Christian liberty” in the Dutch Republic, but they considered it fragile and they felt that their poverty in Leiden was a disincentive for others in England to join their church / movement. So the idea was that they would more fully prosper in northern Virginia / New England, and that greater prosperity would bring about a greater willingness on the part of Englishmen and women to leave behind the Church of England and join true churches.
The party we remember as the first Thanksgiving was preceded by the murder of a lot of Native Americans. In 1637, a group of English Puritans massacred hundreds of people in a Pequot village, causing many of them to be burned alive. There was a day of thanksgiving kept in all the churches, according to the governor of Massachusetts.
They used the word "thanksgiving" to refer to how they felt about the killing of many indigenous people. I agree. Was that the holiday? It is not possible to say yes. The safe arrival of ships and political victories were some of the things that the Puritans believed were good for them. The days of Thanksgiving were marked by prayer and fast.
Variations of a fall harvest holiday were being celebrated in various parts of the country by the time Thanksgiving was adopted as a national holiday in 1863. They didn't commemorate the Pequot massacre or any specific 1600's-era historical event.
It is time to talk about fashion. The teacher got it all wrong if you ever made Pilgrim hats or extravagantly feathered headdresses for a class party.
The men of the Pilgrims wore a capotain, a tall hat. This is more or less the hat you are thinking of, but it didn't have a buckle. The buckle image was not part of the fashion of the 1600's.
The long feathered headdresses the Wampanoag wear are out of place. The eagle feathered war bonnets were a Great Plains thing, with each feather being earned individually, and they weren't just a fashionable hat, and they weren't worn in the area we now call New England.
Turkey may have been on the menu at the 1621 feast, but we don't know for certain. The fowls could have been ducks, geese, pigeons, or other birds.
Sugar wasn't a common enough ingredient to make pumpkin pies and cranberry sauce in the past. There were likely fish and other seafood.
A traditional Thanksgiving meal might include turkey and pumpkin pie, but also goose, duck, beef, pork, mutton, chicken pot pie, and pickles, according to Sarah Josepha Hale.
The harvest feast of 1621 was a one-off event. Poor harvests and an influx of new members made a village-wide feast impractical for the Pilgrims.
George Washington proclaimed a day of public thanksgiving and prayer in 1789 but it was not a day for feast. It took centuries for this idea to blend with the idea of a fall harvest festival and to become an annual holiday in New England.
Many sources say that the Pilgrims landed on a rock. Anything Goes is a historical song. An old man told onlookers that his father told him that the rock was where the Pilgrims landed. At first, the Pilgrims didn't land atPlymouth. The rock was broken in half and moved many times after becoming famous. The date was carved into it in the late 19th century. It isn't a big deal.
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