Where did we get the holiday Thanksgiving from and why do we celebrate it with a feast?

because christmas is more of a 'give me presents holiday' and thanksgiving is when you sit on the table and eat a meal with ur family.

Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is primarily a North American holiday which has generally become a national secular holiday with religious origins. The dates and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration are a topic of modest contention. Though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida[1][2], the traditional "first Thanksgiving" is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members.

Certainly you Cannot be from this Country or even in this Country legally! Even immigrants who are Legally in this country have to take some measure of American History!

The first Thanksgiving took place in the fall, and was a thank you dinner from the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Wampanoag tribe for helping them plant and harvest corn, clams, lobsters and other native foods. They had a feast that included turkey, lobster, corn, clams, deer and other foods native to the area. I think the commercialism of Christmas comes from the tradition of giving gifts. Originally the gifts exchanged were home made (the tradition dates back to the Celts, long before industrialization) but in modern times people have stopped making gifts and started buying them instead, which retailers have taken advantage of.

It has something to do with people called pilgrims coming over and making peace with the indians or something like that!