Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While there was an underlying religious element in the original celebration, Thanksgiving today is primarily identified as a secular holiday.[1]
Although earlier feasts are known to have taken place, Thanksgiving as it is known and celebrated today derives from a joint celebration between the Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts and members of the Native American Patuxet tribe of the Wampanoag people in 1621.
In Canada, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October, which is Columbus Day in the United States. In the United States, it falls on the fourth Thursday of November.
Most of the Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving were Wampanoag or Pawtuxet.
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The Wampanoag Indian tribe first celebrated Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.
The Indians that showed the colonists at Plymouth how to plant corn were the Wampanoag.
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Dhanyavad divas is celebrated in India on 19th September. The Dhanyavad divas (Dhanyavad = thanks, divas = day ) is equal to thanksgiving day that is being celebrated in west. On this day and express gratitude in general
The exact days of the first Thanksgiving are not known. It is believed this celebration extended for several days and it is known that it occurred during the Fall of 1621.
The Pilgrims, who celebrated the first thanksgiving in America, were fleeing religious persecution in their native England. In 1609 a group of Pilgrims left England for the religious freedom in Holand where they lived and prospered.
Many Native American peoples had traditions of harvest celebrations. However, Thanksgiving as it is celebrated in the United States and Canada evolved directly from the traditions of European settlers.
Pongal is a thanksgiving or harvest festival celebrated by the Tamils in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union Territory of Pondicherry and Sri Lanka.
Turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving because the early colonists who had the first Thanksgiving mentioned eating turkey. The colonists celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Wampanoag Indians.
After their first harvest, the colonists of Plymouth held a celebration of food and feasting in the fall of 1621. Indian chiefs Massassoit, Squanto and Samoset joined in the celebration with ninety of their men in the three-day event. This is said to be the first North American day of Thanksgiving. On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for the observance of the fourth Tuesday of November as a national holiday.