We can take this Thanksgiving holiday as an opportunity to learn about First Nations and the important role they played in American history and in present times. Often the narrative we learn about the first Thanksgiving is overly simplistic, historically inaccurate and censored. The Thanksgiving story deeply rooted in America’s school curriculum frames the Pilgrims as the main characters and reduces the Wampanoag Indians to supporting roles. It also erases a monumentally sad history. Long before the arrival of the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag held frequent Thanksgiving-like celebrations, giving thanks in the form of feasts and ceremonial games. The Wampanoag connection to the first Thanksgiving Tribal Chairman Brian Weeden says the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has existed for over 12,000 years in current-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The "First" Thanksgiving that most Americans know involves the story of when Pilgrims and Indians came together to eat and give thanks in 1621. But well before Thanksgiving was made a national holiday in 1863 by President Lincoln and our own tables today overflowed with sweet potato pie and turkey, the Wampanoag people already had a special ... Wampanoag music is wrapped up in dance. The beat of a hardwood stick, water drum, and corn rattles is the music of their lively social dances, while appreciation and gratitude are expressed in their ceremonial dances. “It is part of our nature is to be in thanksgiving” said Ramona Peters, a Wampanoag woman. The Mashpee Wampanoag first encountered the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower ship in 1620. They say much is missing from the often-told Thanksgiving story. Learn the significance of Cranberry Day for the Aquinnah Wampanoag and the importance of harvest traditions among Wampanoag communities today. Giving thanks is a longstanding, central tradition among Indigenous peoples that is still practiced today. Due to his knowledge of English, the Pilgrims made Squanto an interpreter and emissary between the English and Wampanoag Confederacy. What really happened at the first Thanksgiving in 1621? The...
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