Who attended the first the first thanksgiving?

Answer 1

Thanksgiving is traditionally associated with the Pilgrims, who were Christian separatists from England and had come over on the Mayflower. Because the Native Americans known as the Wampanoag indians showed the colonists how to plant, fish and hunt, they played a crucial role in the survival of the colony. The Wampanoag were therefore invited along to the feast, which lasted three days.

However, another version says the first Thanksgiving was celebrated on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida. In this scenario, Spanish explorer Pedro Menendez de Avilesinvited the Timucua Indians to a celebratory meal in St Augustine in 1565 after a thanksgiving Mass celebrating his and his crew's safe arrival.

A third "First Thanksgiving" story has it as being essentially religious in nature, without any feasting involved. On 4 December 1619, a group of settlers from England arrived at Berkeley Plantation on the James River, now known as Charles City, Virginia. This group dedicated this day of their arrival as a Day of Thanksgiving to God.