12/2/2019 0 Comments The History of ThanksBy Kenidy Cessna Maybe the first Thanksgiving wasn't as wonderful as the stories we were told as children. In fact it was very different. The first Thanksgiving was the mark of a national holiday, on October 21 1682 the pilgrims celebrated their first harvest in what we now call our homeland. The first Thanksgiving was a blend of two traditions, the Wampanoag (native tribe) celebrated every meal with prayer and feasting; the pilgrims celebrated by rejoicing after a successful bounty which was very rare in Europe. Pilgrims brought new traditions and even today the two stated above are the most common ways families celebrate Thanksgiving. The first people to celebrate Thanksgiving are proved to be the Spanish and English colonists. The states we know they celebrated in are currently known as Florida, Maine, Texas and Virginia.
The puritan holiday comes from Puritan New England, their fasts and thanksgiving never fell on Sundays. As well as never celebrating on the sabbath day they were also never annual up until the middle of the 17th century. In the 1700s it started becoming a time of the year where families gathered, prayed, and feasted on their successful crops. The first thanksgiving we all hear stories about was made the official first thanksgiving by continental congress in 1777. The Wampanoag tribe and the Pilgrims were identified with the first thanksgiving until the 1900s, even though they were a huge part of the thanksgiving traditions. So I hope as you ate your turkey on Thanksgiving you thought and gave thanks to those who made this holiday as memorable as it is today.
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