If you asked most Americans to tell you when the first Thanksgiving was, who was there, and what they ate? You would get approximately the same mythological story.- In 1621 the Pilgrims were so thankful for surviving the winter, that they invited their Indian neighbors for a feast. Dinner is usually a more creative description but usually includes cranberries, turkey, popcorn etc.
I can see many people shaking their heads in agreement. That's pretty much how most of us learned it in school, on tv, and the movies. Would it surprise you to learn that the Harvest Feast of 1621 is more fiction then fact?
Lets look at different perspectives and develop an inquiry model for further exploration.
Resources for Further Exploration: Thanksgiving From Many Perspectives
Native American Perspective
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Thanksgiving/story?id=91029 Interview with Liz Lodge (Director Plimoth Plantation)
Teaching tolerance : 1621 http://www.tolerance.org/resource/1621-new-look-thanksgiving
Day of Mourning http://www.pilgrimhall.org/daymourn.htm
Deconstructing the Myths http://www.oyate.org/resources/shortthanks.html
American Indian Perspective http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/files/thanksgiving_poster.pdf
Wampanaog Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation
Harvest ceremony: beyond the Thanksgiving Myth
Wampanoag: People of the first light http://www.bostonkids.org/educators/wampanoag/index.htm
Euro-American Perspective
Pilgrim Hall http://www.pilgrimhall.org/1stthnks.htm
Pilgrims to America (primary sources) http://www.awesomestories.com/history/pilgrims-america
Plimoth Plantation http://www.plimoth.org/
Maryland Historical Society - Thanksgiving http://www.mdhs.org/education/images/Web%20PDFs/Native%20Americans%20in%20Maryland%20Pre-Visit%20Lesson%202.pdf
History of Thanksgiving http://www.history.com/content/thanksgiving/the-first-thanksgiving
Many Perspectives http://www.proquestk12.com/bulletins/archive/nov06sl.htm
Primary Resources
Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/learn//community/EA_toolkit/overview.pdf
Using primary sources in classroom http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/about/psl_in_action/vol1_issue2.pdf
Native Resources (General)
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