Thanksgiving

A group of Europeans decided to explore and find land that they would be able to practice their religion freely on. They made it to Massachusetts Bay on the Mayflower, there they began to build their village a month later. That spring they met an Abenaki Indian and a Indian man named Squanto. Squanto taught the pilgrims how to cultivate corn,get sap from trees, how to catch fish in rivers, and even how to figure out which plants are poisonous. The settlers then made an alliance with a local tribe, their relationship for those 50 years was not good at all. November 1621 as when the first thanksgiving was held, it was in honor of the first successful corn harvest of the pilgrims. The celebration lasted for three days and included of few natives and the remaining pilgrims that survived the journey. Pilgrims held their second thanksgiving in 1623, (to mark the end of a large drought). In this day and age our version of thanksgiving includes being around our family and acknowledge all that we are grateful for, we sit down together and eat a nice and homely feast.

I do not really like how the natives suffered from the pilgrims and I am glad thanksgiving then is not what it is now. It is not much of a religious holiday anymore. I really like thanksgiving and I have so many things to be thankful for. I am extremely thankful for my family and that we are happy and together, I am also thankful for my cousins because they make my life better, i am also thankful for; my dogs, my grades in school, my amazing friends, my aunt's cooking, my teachers, my laptop, my phone, my dad's Netflix account, and my clothes.