What really happened on thanksgiving?

What happened on the first Thanksgiving?

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  Thanksgiving was about three days long meant to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest. It was the Wampanoages' idea and it was a day of religion and prayer, not food. Answer It was conducted by the Pilgrims. it was very crowded all they had was birds and vegatables. Very long it lasted for 3 days. The Pilgrims grew the crops with help from the Wampanoags and the Wampanoags caught the birds I think they might have had fish to. It was so crowded because Massasoit brought 70 of the Wampanoags + the Pilgrims it would be so crowded. Answer In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is considered the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies. This harvest meal became a symbol of cooperation between English colonists and Native Americans. Native American tribes throughout the Americas organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America. The only two items on the dinner menu that historians know for certain were venison and wild fowl. The pilgrims didn't use forks; they ate with spoons, knives, and their fingers. In the seventeenth century, a person's social standing determined what he or she ate. The best food was placed next to the most important people. People didn't tend to eat everything that was on the table, they just ate what was closest to them. The pilgrims probably didn't have pies or anything sweet at the harvest feast. They didn't have an oven or much sugar to bake pies, cakes and breads. People tend to think of English food at bland, but the pilgrims used many spices, including cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, pepper, and dried fruit. The best way to cook foods in the seventeenth century was to roast them. The biggest meal of the day for the colonists was eaten at noon and it was called noonmeat or dinner. The foods that the colonists and Wampanoag Indians normally ate were similar, but their eating habits were different. While the colonists ate regular meals-breakfast, dinner, and supper-the Wampanoags tended to eat when they were hungry and had pots cooking all day long.