PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Before they're served piles of turkey and pie, kids often hear the story of the first Thanksgiving – how Pilgrims and native Americans came together to feast and count their ...

The origins of Thanksgiving can be traced back to harvest festivals, when the Pilgrims and Native Americans gave thanks for a bountiful harvest.

Indigenous scholars and activists say that the Thanksgiving story ignores a longer past and future for Native Americans. Here is the whole story.

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 ...

It’s 1621. The Pilgrims and Indians are sitting down at Plymouth, Mass., to a feast that would become known as the first Thanksgiving. “Hey, are you guys up for a little turkey bowling?… ...

When the Mayflower pilgrims and the Wampanoag sat down for the first Thanksgiving in 1621, it wasn’t actually that big of a deal. Likely, it was just a routine English harvest celebration. More ...

Thanksgiving —the annual holiday observed on the fourth Thursday of every November— is popularly thought to have started when the Pilgrims from England joined the Native Americans they ...

Some Americans cling to a romanticized version of Thanksgiving, in which the Pilgrims invited Native Americans to share a bountiful meal together.

Why many Native Americans are uncomfortable with Thanksgiving holiday. The origins of America's Thanksgiving Day depicts Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621 coming together in a peaceful display ...

The sanitized version of Thanksgiving — Pilgrims feasting happily with Indigenous people — has little bearing on how people celebrate the holiday today.

But from the Pilgrims’ point of view, the first Thanksgiving – meant to be a day set aside for prayer and worship – took place in July 1623.