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Thanksgiving Facts that will Make You Sound Very Smart at the Table

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FIRST THANKSGIVING 🍁 The famous pilgrim celebration at Plymouth Colony Massachusetts in 1621, is regarded as the first American Thanksgiving, however, there are actually 12 claims to where the "first" Thanksgiving took place: two in Texas, two in Florida, one in Maine, two in Virginia, and give in Massachusetts. In 1541, when Francisco Vesquez de Coronado and his expedition held a thanksgiving celebration in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle.  🍁 The settlers of Plymouth Rock never meant for it to be a feast. They mostly wanted to recognize "giving of thanks" in the form of prayer and abstaining from food, but the Wampanoag Indians, who joined the pilgrims for their 3-day celebration contributed their own harvest traditions of dancing, games, and feasting. This is from their accident festival, Nickommoh , meaning"to give away" or "exchange".  🍁   If it wasn't for the help of Tisquantum, or Squanto (c. 1580-1622) the pilgrims m