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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Feast of first Thanksgiving by Pedro Fray Juan de Padillo for Coronado and his troops in Palo Duro Canyon 79 years before the Pilgrims.
Thanksgiving Feast at Timber Creek Elementary The first graders at Timber Creek Elementary celebrated Thanksgiving in Pilgrim and Indian dress with a feast.
Thanksgiving Feast at Pine Ridge Elementary The first graders at Pine Ridge Elementary celebrated Thanksgiving in Pilgrim and Indian dress with a feast.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Americans are also taught that the pilgrims invited their Indian friends to attend the first Thanksgiving to celebrate their survival through their first harvest.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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On the first Thanksgiving pilgrims ate maize, fish, deer, squash, berries, and corn bread, there is no proof that they ate turkey.
The Indians who treated the Pilgrims to the first Thanksgiving dinner probably would have been identified as late Woodland had an archaeologist been present.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The first Thanksgiving in New England was celebrated in Plymouth less than a year after the Plymouth colonists had settled in America.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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The Plymouth Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621, the year following the arrival of the Mayflower pilgrims is traditionally regarded as the first thanksgiving.
In a story about the first Thanksgiving, religious freedom forces Bradford to flee with the Pilgrims.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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They celebrate the pilgrim's first Thanksgiving each November but are not told to whom those early settlers were thankful.
The Thanksgiving Connection There are conflicting reports and documentation as to whether pumpkins were a part of the first Thanksgiving meal of the Pilgrims and the Indians, or whether it was the second Thanksgiving celebration the next year.
Note: celebrating Thanksgiving on the third Thursday of November was established by the American government and may not necessarily coincide with the pilgrim's first observance.
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