No.Our view of the first Thanksgiving comes to us from the 1800's and when the history of the colonies were romanticized. It wasn't until 1860 that the holiday became official in the United States. The Pilgrims had a fast each year as part of their religion and when they broke the fast there was a big dinner. Somehow this became the "first Thanksgiving."
The Pilgrims and the Indians
About 90 Native Americans from the Wampanoag tribe attended the first Thanksgiving dinner.
About 90 Native Americans from the Wampanoag tribe attended the first Thanksgiving dinner.
Food.Food was on the menu at the first presidential thanksgiving dinner!:)
Thanksgiving Day in the United States is traditionally a holiday to give thanks for the food collected at the end of the harvest season.
turkey
Amercians and Indians were the first to have Thanksgiving. But some sources say the first thanksgiving was held in Canada.
The first people to celebrate Thanksgiving were the Pilgrims and the Indians.
The first president to observe a formal Thanksgiving dinner in the White House was Rutherford Hayes. Abraham Lincoln actually celebrated Thanksgiving, but the event was much smaller.
The pilgrams and indians.
Clothes!
The Indians.