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Thanksgiving is a time where most of us spend time with our families and loved ones eating delicious food and saying what we're thankful for. I love Thanksgiving, and I'm sure you do, too, right, who doesn't like spending a day with family and eating a ton of food? 

But what many of you probably don't know is there is an untold truth about Thanksgiving, the dark history of the holiday that most of us know as something positive, but in reality started off as the complete opposite as children were usually taught that the tradition dates back to times of the pilgrim's English religious dissenters who helped to establish the Plymouth colony in the present day, Massachusetts and 1620.



As the story goes, friendly, local Native Americans taught the struggling colonists how to survive in the new world, then everyone got together to celebrate with a feast and sixteen, twenty-one. The attendees included at least 90 men from the Wampanoag tribe and the 50 or so surviving Mayflower passengers, according to time. 

The battle lasted three days and featured a menu consisting of deer, fowl, and corn, according to the Smithsonian magazine. In reality, the Thanksgiving feast predates Plymouth. You can even find a number of localities that have fought to claim the first Thanksgiving for themselves. Settlers and Berkely Hundred in Virginia decided to celebrate their arrival with an annual Thanksgiving back and 1619, according to the Virginia Pilot.

Although the Washingtonian reported that the meal was probably little more than some oysters and ham threw together. However, decades before then, Spanish settlers and members of the Savoy tribe broke bread with salted pork, garbanzo beans, and a mass in 1565 Florida, according to the National Park Service. 

In today's time, our modern definition of Thanksgiving revolves around eating turkey, but in past centuries, it was more of an occasion for religious observance. This story is 1621 Plimoth festivities live on in popular memory. 

But the pilgrims themselves would have likely considered their sober 1623 days of prayer, the first real Thanksgiving, according to the blog of the history of Massachusetts. 

Others have pinpointed 1637 as the true origin of Thanksgiving owing to the fact that Massachusetts Colonie Governor John Withdraw declared the day of Thanksgiving to celebrate colonial soldiers who had just slaughtered 700 Pequot men, women, and children in what is now called Mystic Connecticut. 

Regardless, though, the popular story of the initial Harvest Festival is what has continued to live on. Thanks to the late Abraham Lincoln, the enduring holiday and celebration have almost entirely wiped the memory of what really happened between the Wampanoag and the English a whole generation later, 

Massasoit to the same more paramount chief of the Wampanoag proved to be a crucial ally to the English settlers.

In the years following the establishment of Plymouth, he arranged an exclusive trade agreement with the newcomers and allied with them against the French and other local tribes, such as the Narragansett and Massachusetts. 

However, over time, the alliance became strained. Thousands of English colonists swarmed into the region throughout the 17th century, according to historic contact. Indian people and colonists in today's northeastern the United States, authorities in Plymouth began asserting control over most aspects of Wampanoag life as settlers increasingly ate up more land. 

The Gloater Hulamin Institute of American History estimated disease had already reduced the Native American population in New England by as much as 90% from 1616 to 1619. And indigenous people continue to die from what the colonists called Indian fever. 

By the time Massasoit Son Medicament, known to the English as King Phillip, inherited the leadership relations had become strained. King Philip's war was ignited when several medicaments men were executed for the murder of Punker Boag interpreter and Christian convert John Sesemann. 

Wampanoag lawyers responded by embarking on a series of raids and the New England Confederation of Colonies declared war in sixteen seventy-five. The initial neutral colony of Rhode Island in the Providence Plantations was ultimately dragged into the fighting, as were other nearby tribes like the Narragansetts. The war was filled with bloodshed and was devastating.

Springfield, Massachusetts, was burned to the ground. The Wampanoag abducted colonists for ransom. English forces had attacked the Narragansetts on a bitter frozen swamp for harboring fleeing Wampanoag 600 Narragansets were murdered and the tribe's winter stores were ruined. 

According to Atlas Obscura, colonists in far-flung settlements moved to more fortified areas. While the Wampanoag and the allied tribes were forced to leave their villages. The colonists ultimately allied themselves with several tribes, such as the Mohegans and Pequod, despite initial reluctance from the Plimoth leadership. 

Meanwhile, meta-comment was dealt with a shocking blow when he crossed over into New York to recruit new allies. Instead, he was rebuffed and attacked by Mohawk's. Upon his return to his ancestral home at Mount Hope, he was shot and killed in a final battle. The son of the man who had sustained and celebrated with the Plymouth colony was then beheaded and his body dismembered. 

His remaining allies were then murdered or sold into slavery. In the West Indies, the colonists impaled King Philip's head on a spike and placed it on display in Plymouth for twenty-five years. In an article published in the Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Montclair State University Professor Robert E. Craig Jr. said the war is complete. The death toll could have been as high as 30 percent of the English population and half of the Native Americans in New England.

This war was just one of a series of brutal but dimly remembered early colonial wars between Native Americans and colonists that occurred in New England, New York, and Virginia. Popular memory has largely clung to the innocuous image of a harvest celebration while ignoring the deadly forces that would ultimately drive apart from the descendants of the guest of that very feast. 

Modern-day Thanksgiving may be a celebration of people coming together, but that's not the entire story when it comes to the history of that day. Well, the dark history, if you will. I'd like to show some respect for all of the fallen warriors of the past that took part in molding this holiday for what it is today. 

It's truly devastating how many lives were lost in this war. So while you're celebrating this day of feasting with your loved ones and what you're all thankful for, remember, not everything starts off on a happy note, but I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and get a chance to eat a lot of good food with your families before we go.

The untold truth about Thanksgiving

We enjoy this Thanksgiving holiday every year very ungrudgingly. But we don’t really know Why Do We Celebrate Thanksgiving day every year.

A very long time ago over four hundred years ago in the early 60s hundreds. A group of people from England wanted to pray and worship God in their own way. Buy not the way the King of England demanded because he was in control of the Church of England. 

And anyone who disagreed with the King's church and wanted to pray their own way could be sent to jail. This group of people wanted to free the Church of England from the king's rule. They wanted to make it pure.


These people were called the Puritans.There were about 100 men women and children who left England and the king and his church. They had a dream of religious freedom.



They failed on a ship. That ship was called the Mayflower. They said all the way to the new world. These brave travelers that we now call the Pilgrims land in Plymouth.

After a journey that lasted about forty five days. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock On December 11, 1620.

Wow that was a long time ago almost 400 years. The cold snowy winter of the north eastern United States that we know of now where what these pilgrims were introduced to This new land was strange to them. Nothing seemed familiar. 



And many of the pilgrims are still This new world. Their winter was long called a heavy heart for the pilgrims. I should have worn a bigger jacket. 

Luckily Native Americans helped the Pilgrims by giving him seeds and food. The Native Americans started to teach the Pilgrims about their new home. They also gave the pilgrims the skills needed to survive in the strange new land. 



That first year in their new home was very hard for the pilgrims. However with the seeds and plants given to them from the Native Americans the Pilgrims planted crops in that fall. The Pilgrims harvest was so good and they had much food to share. 

To celebrate the crops and the help from the Native Americans. The Pilgrims had a feast of Thanksgiving many different foods were cooked for the Feast, Ducks, Geese, fish and venison which is deer meat was served along with fish, pumpkins, squash, corn, sweet potatoes and cranberries.


There was actually no turkey. Served on that very first Thanksgiving believe it or not. And yes pumpkins were at the feast but not pumpkin pie and no cranberry sauce as well. Just cranberries with some other fruits. 

Captain Myles Standish who was the leader of the Pilgrims decided to invite all of the Native Americans who had helped them so much during their first year. 



Everyone had such a great time celebrating this feast together. It lasted for three days. Your mama. This feast from the harvest in 1621 is often called the first stink skipping. The first national Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed by President George Washington. 

In 1789 over the years the day we now celebrate as Thanksgiving became an important tradition in the United States a day of giving thanks for all that we have.

But this may not have happened if it wasn't for Sarah Josepha Hale that she wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb. The song actually has absolutely zero to do with Thanksgiving. I just really like lamps.

That's right Quinn. Besides writing the song Mary Had a Little Lamb. Sarah also convinced President Lincoln in 1863 to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. 

After writing letters for 17 years campaigning for this to happen. Abraham Lincoln declared that the last Thursday in November should be celebrated as Thanksgiving because it has been celebrated every year in the United States. 

Thanksgiving was finally made an official federal holiday and moved to the fourth Thursday of November in 1941 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Thanksgiving Turkey Facts

Almost 90 percent of Americans eat Turkey on Thanksgiving each year. Wow. That's a lot of turkey
About 46 million turkeys are eaten every thanksgiving day. 



But for almost 70 years the current president of the United States has chosen one lucky turkey to not be chosen for Thanksgiving and that Turkey will live on the farm until it passes away of old age.

 Have you ever had a TV dinner or microwave arable dinner. Well did you know that Thanksgiving is the reason that these were invented. 

See in 1953 the company Swanson had so much left over turkey over two hundred and sixty tons that someone from the company had the idea to package the leftover turkey onto aluminum trays and include some other sides like sweet potatoes. 

The company decided this was a great idea and that's how TV dinners were born. And for our final fact about Thanksgiving. 

Do you know what balloon character has been on more Macy's Day Thanksgiving parade than any other. Leave your guests in the comments below. And let's see if you're right. The answer is. Snoopy.

Why Do We Celebrate Thanksgiving

Are you want to know when did Thanksgiving become a national holiday in the United States. Sarah Josepha Hale, one of the great women in American history, campaigns for nearly 20 years to get Thanksgiving, made a national holiday. It formerly became best celebrated, as we think about it, in New England.



However, some other regions had similar events at different times of the year and often multiple times in those years.

Whenever something particularly good happens, it was common to have a day of thanks usually directed to God.

However, most of these days, little resemble what we think of as Thanksgiving. Often these were days for fasting and offering prayers of thanks during the Heils campaign, which spans five presidents.

Before she found one that was receptive to her idea in President Abraham Lincoln, she continually lobbied various members of Congress, wrote annual editorials on the topic, wrote annual letters to each governor within us, and sent a gentle stream of letters to the US president of the day furthermore.

Ultimately, she was ready to convince Lincoln that it'd be a realistic idea to assist unify the country once the warfare ended.

A final letter to Lincoln on the subject was mailed on the 20th of September 1863. After reading it and thinking it over on October the 3rd, 1863, Lincoln decided to declare the last Thursday in November as a national Thanksgiving holiday, which became that very same year before this, the sole national holidays that existed within the USA were national holiday and February 22.

From that point on until the end when Congress officially set the date of US Thanksgiving into law in nineteen forty-one, every president, except for Roosevelt, would annually declare the last Thursday in November as a holiday for giving thanks.

Roosevelt declared the second to last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving in nineteen thirty-nine, 1940, and nineteen forty-one to extend the shopping season.

Unfortunately, only about 1/2 the states glided by with him, most of the remainder, excepting Texas, curst the tradition of the last Thursday.

In November, Texas decided to take it both as a holiday. This mess ultimately required Congress to step in and officially set the date in October of nineteen forty-one to go into effect in nineteen forty-two in pure congressional form.

The date they set became a compromise being the fourth Tuesday, which became once in a while the final and once in a while the second one to final. Hale's contributions to Thanksgiving failed to prevent there. She wrote several editorials that have been broadly circulated outlining numerous recipes for use for Thanksgiving dinner.

These included many things that would not likely have been served as the original Thanksgiving, such as turkey stuffing, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, and mashed potatoes. So who was Sarah Hale, and how did she come to be so influential, given that she was a woman born in 1788?

Relatively humble beginnings at a time when it was rare for a woman to receive any sort of education, formal or not, let alone go on to be the editor of 1 of the foremost successful magazines in the USA.

As she did, Hale's parents both believed women should be educated and saw to it that Sarah received an education, even though she wasn't able to attend school formallyRaInsteadher parents homeschooled her in the beginning.

Later, her advanced knowledge handled by her brother, Horatio. When Horatio attended Dartmouth, he'd sink in and teach her what he'd learned that day, and once he had done so, they'd study together.
When her brother Horatio was awarded a diploma from Dartmouth, he awarded Sarah with an honour from the Horatio Gates fueled college and declared that she had graduated summa cum laude with a degree in the arts.

Among her many accomplishments, she wrote a very successful book, Northwoods Life North and South, which in England was called A New England Tale.

This was one of the first books that dealt directly with slavery is a central part of the plot, and was also one of the few books out there written by a woman in her era, particularly in America.

Not only is it impressive for her to get the book published at all in that day and age, but she read this book shortly after her husband died, leaving her with little or no money and five kids to boost.

After his death, she started and ran the millinery business, making parts for women to support her family, raise the kids and publish a book of poems for extra money referred to as The Genius of Oblivion and different authentic poems.

This book was initially only marginally successful, but it was enough to allow her to stop having to make hats and focus on writing a novel.

Her novel Northwards ended up being next hugely successful and was eventually read by the Reverend John Blake and master of the Cornhill School for Young Ladies.

He was so impressed by her work that he offered her a grip because the editor of a women's magazine he was starting called the women Magazine. This made her the first-ever female editor of a magazine in the USA.

She held this position for eight years before the magazine eventually merged with Goodi's latest book. This specifically targeted the magazine, Hale works out for acquisition because they wanted her because of the editor of that journal.

She held the position of editor for this journal for 40 years with no significant competitors in the United States and with her writing nearly half of the contents of each journal in the beginning, both good.

His latest book and Hale had a surprising influence on the United States during her time as editor, Goodis published on a vast range of topics not just explicitly related to women, but also such random things as housing design with many of goodies, architectural house plans being popularly used by builders all over the country.

The reason Hale had to write about half the articles for the Journal, in the beginning, was that she wanted to only include American authors in Goodis, and there simply and there simply weren't enough of them initially to fill the pages.

Most publications got around this problem by only having the vast majority of the articles they publish to be copies of works by British authors who wanted to create a magazine that helped support Americans, who made a point of seeking out the most talented American authors to promote them to the vast audience that subscribed to her magazine.

Because if this article is by most of the famed American authors of the era can be found in her publication, Hale's influence can be seen throughout the United state during her lifetime, having a major effect on how women dressed, what they cooked, what literature they read, how they conducted themselves, morally, etc.

the type of Martha Stewart Oprah of a date. She also tirelessly promoted education for girls, eventually even helping to found Vassar College. the concept of a women's college at the time wasn't looked upon the favourably USA as formal education for ladies was something of frowned upon on the full. Also controversially, she convinced Vassar to rent a female administrator and feminine teachers.

Something of it was rarely done at the time. In her spare time, if she had any, she helped found the Seamans Aid Society in 1833 in Boston, which is a corporation that helps women obtain useful job skills and also helps to support them by giving them an area to measure and food to eat while they try to establish themselves.

Initially, the society was started to help those women whose husbands were lost at sea, leaving the surviving women and children typically destitute. If all of that isn't enough, she published nearly 50 volumes outside of what she produced for the Journal.

She was an editor for these works, was comprised of various novels and books of poetry. One such poetry book targeted at children produce the ever-popular Mary Had a Little Lamb, which was initially just called Mary's Lamb.

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