...Some typical foods to come in mind when thinking of thanksgiving is turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, potatoes and pumpkin pies. At the time, the Indians, and settlers ate deer, berries, and corn. The Indians would celebrate a successful harvest. Corn was a very important factor to the “first thanksgiving”. Corn was used in many ways during this time of harvest. During the “first thanksgiving” the Indians turned the corn into porridge. Fruits that were native to the land were gathered and eaten. Americans have taken the foods stated in the history of thanksgiving and transformed them into the traditional holiday meal. When Thanksgiving rolls around in the American tradition it marks the time for the holiday season. Thanksgiving begins the holiday...
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...Every year on the fourth Thursday of November many people in America celebrate Thanksgiving. The Americans celebrate it because of the pilgrims by doing traditions they did. The reason why people celebrate Thanksgiving is because of the pilgrims. According to history.com when the pilgrims came to the new land, Plymouth, they had a hard winter. After the horrible winter was over all the people that did not die of illnesses or starvations came to explore the new land. They met Native Americans. They taught the pilgrims how to grow corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in rivers, and avoid poisonous plant. When spring came, and the pilgrims first corn harvest was successful they decided to have a feast and it lasted three days. That...
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...Description: What is/are the artifact(s)? The artifacts are a lesson plan and photographs taken during my student experience. The lesson plan is on the history of the first Thanksgiving. The lesson focuses on the history of Thanksgiving and how the Native Americans and the Pilgrims way of giving thanks. The photographs are images of the students eating at the classroom’s Thanksgiving feast. In the photographs, students are also seen wearing their Pilgrim and Native American hats at the feast. Interpretation: Provide a rationale for choosing the artifact(s) The lesson plan was chosen because it is organized and revolves around the unifying theme of Thanksgiving and giving thanks. The lesson plan uses relevant content and it is developmentally...
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...Thanksgiving: A Day of Mourning By Roy Cook Children are taught now days that Thanksgiving was all about the pilgrims and how they helped native Indians and there was a big feast and they were invited. The information is however inaccurate and dangerous for the children because instead of calling it thanksgiving it should be a "Day in Mourning” for the Indians. The original name for "Thanksgiving” was called “Nikkomasachmiawene” in the American Indian language that taught the true meaning of the holiday. This happened in 1621 that actually formed the feast that was done originals with the Europeans to help the pilgrims. The feast was done with games and tradional food with lots of stories. The Massasoit came with over 90 men with plenty of deer, fish. The tribe near Plymouth had been wiped out for the land which they resided. Then, the pilgrims arrive five years later. The Native Americans did business with the English people in 1614. One of the men was Captain Thomas Hunt and he liked to do trading. Thomas also sold some people off as slaves in Spain. Lots of American Indians were tricked into jobs but ended up becoming slaves. Being around the English people and not having shots caused the Indians to become ill with diseases like smallpox, measles and so on.72,000 - 90,000 Indians were in this area and after being in slaved with the English people 80 % were lost over 100 year period. A lot of the Indian...
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...Thanksgiving Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War; President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal a popular holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony survive their first brutal winter in New England. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans. The feast consisted of fish and shellfish, wild fowl, venison, berries and fruit, vegetables, harvest grains, and the Three Sisters: beans, dried Indian maize or corn, and squash. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought. Thanksgiving Day in the United States started as a way of giving thanks to food collected from a good harvest or problems that were fixed. It originated in 1621 and was a religious festival, but is now largely secular. It is now a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. Many people trace the origins of the modern Thanksgiving Day to the harvest celebration that the Pilgrims held in Plymouth, Massachusetts...
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...Why the Exchange of Food on Thanksgiving Day is the Corner Stone of the Holiday Bryan Hitchings CF 107 Chef Quan Anderson November 12, 2013 Why the Exchange of Food on Thanksgiving Day is the Corner Stone of the Holiday The first Thanksgiving Day as history records was truly a day of thanks for the weary Pilgrims. Had it not been for the humility of Squanto “a member of the Pawtuxet tribe”, (history) the first settlers would have surely perished. Squanto showed the Pilgrims weakened by illness and malnutrition how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, fish in the rivers and to avoid poisonous plants. Squanto also helped the Pilgrims develop a relationship with local Native American tribes such as the Wampanoag. This would last for over fifty years and is sadly one of the sole times of peace recorded between the first settlers and Native Americans. After the Pilgrims, first successful harvest Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited all the colonies and their Native American allies which lasted for three days. The Native Americans showed up with five deer and Governor William sent some of his men out to gather fowling, and they also dined on the fruits of their harvest. This was known as Americas first Thanksgiving. So in my opinion Food is the corner stone of the holiday because it’s the way the Pilgrims came together with Native Americans to show thanks for all their help in surviving the harsh new land. For me it is the way...
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...Thanksgiving is when the leaves start to fall and it is time for venison? Though Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate the pilgrims and the Indians. Their traditions were very different than it is by today's standards. Would you go out and hunt for your turkey or deer. I know the Thanksgiving tradition for most people is to put a big ole turkey in the oven. A lot of people eat ham with their meal. I figure out that a lot of people eat all the same sort of sides, which usually consist of mashed potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. It was very much the same for the pilgrims too they have many sides with their meals. A lot of people eat with family and some people do it with there friends. That is very similar to the original Thanksgiving,...
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...training and administering certified food manager exams to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families and loved ones. But before we sit down to our turkey and stuffing, our sweet potatoes with marshmallows, our cranberry sauce and our pumpkin pie, we thought it would be fun to take a look at the feast the Pilgrims celebrated back in 1621. TITLE The menu for our traditional Thanksgiving has been passed down from generation to generation without fail, but I think many of us would be surprised as to just how different the menu was on that very first Thanksgiving Day. In fact, there is very little that our current Thanksgiving menus have in...
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...Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once. The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags. But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought....
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...is not the case of Thanksgiving. Very few people know the true story of Thanksgiving in America. Its origins have been twisted and it is wished that parts would be erased. The story is never really told truthfully in its entirety. Thanksgiving should be taught as it happened in history. Thanksgiving should no longer be celebrated the manner it currently is in America due to the suffering of Native Americans during the early years of United States history. This holiday should be eliminated...
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...Thanksgiving is a traditional annual celebration and it is celebrated on the United States and Canada. In the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Generally during this holiday people gather around a table with family and friends to celebrate this day. Thanksgiving has a different meaning for some people, but for most of them is synonymous of huge meals, parades, football match and spending quality time with the beloved ones. This holiday is not only about cooking delicious dishes and spending time with family but also is a reminder of being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. More than half of American families celebrate thanksgiving. History The Thanksgiving Day had its origins in a mixture of European and aboriginal traditions. Both cultures had their own different way of celebrating the harvest day, but when the Europeans came to America for the first time; they brought their own tradition better known as the harvest festival which celebrates the end of their journey as well as the good harvest of the year. Despite the origins of Thanksgiving Day, this holiday is similar in Canada and the United States but everyone celebrates it in their own way. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621; where a group of 102 people (the pilgrims) from England arrived to the new world. They found a village called Plymouth. As the winter came along and diseases struck the village the...
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...Pilgrims and Native Americans Native Americans (Wampanoag) and Pilgrims both played an integral part in the development of Massachusetts. One cannot take all the credit they must actually share it equally. The Pilgrims traveled to the state of Massachusetts over from Europe trying to escape the King’s rule and to be able to have religious freedoms. They also wanted to avoid being persecuted for their religious beliefs. The Native Americans were already settled in Massachusetts and had been suffering from plagues brought over from the Europeans. They had lost many of the Wampanoag and were looking for help and they needed allies since their numbers had diminished so much from the plague and war. They both had things to offer to the other to aid in their survival. The pilgrims had weapons to offer as well as ships where the Native Americans had had bows and arrows and spears. The Native Americans had their knowledge of the land and survival skills. They had two different ways of life such as different styles of dress, religious beliefs. The Pilgrims were not equipped to survive in the new world and many didn’t make it in the beginning through the first winter. With the help of the Native Americans they learned how to survive on the new land. The Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to farm and plant. Corn became an important crop. It was sometimes used to barter for furs, and it was also used to feed the livestock. They also taught them how to fish and how to be...
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...Chapter 1 Handicapped by History Brief Summary As the first chapter in this long analytical book, chapter one serves as the foundation for the rest of the novel, with a basic premise that “history textbooks make fool out of the students.” It shows how portrayal of historical figures and events in the best light for the reputation of United States leads to biased and distorted historical education. Author’s Viewpoint Loewen uses two examples—Helen Keller and Woodrow Wilson—in order to illustrate his point, and I would like to focus on the latter for this analysis. Loewen states that while Woodrow Wilson is often presented as the founder of League of Nations following World War I and the leader of progressive causes like women’s suffrage, textbooks rarely make any reference to racial segregation of federal government and his military interventions in foreign nations (22). Wilson intervened in countries like Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua, and, which set up dictatorship in those nations, but surprisingly documentary evidences only emphasize his role in withdrawing the troops, which sounds ironic considering that he “wasn’t” the one who put the troops in at the first place (25). Instead, textbooks portray his intentions as building up friendship or take a step further and blame the invaded nations themselves (24). Next argument that Loewen makes is that Wilson was a racist who effectively closed the Democratic Party to African Americans, a fact that...
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...Although Christmas and Thanksgiving are both holidays, they both have many similarities and differences. Around Thanksgiving and Christmas, most families remain so busy that their memories of these two holidays tend to blend together. These two holidays are so similar, but yet so different at the same time, both Thanksgiving and Christmas are time of giving thanks, merriments, gift exchange and family reunion but the clear differences are there purposes are not the same. It is a time where family comes together that haven’t been around the whole year. Christmas differs from Thanksgiving in food, decorations, and family tradition. During Christmas, there is a lot of running around to do. Usually, weeks before Christmas, families get together and go out and buy Christmas gifts. They also go out and buy Christmas trees, decorations, wrapping paper, and food that is going to be cooked the night before Christmas. Days before Christmas, the families gets the gift and wrap them to put under the Christmas tree. When decorating the Christmas tree you usually put your lights on which are usually red and green. You also put ornaments which could be Christmas balls or hand crafted ornaments. At the end of decorating the tree, the traditional topping for the tree is an angel or a star. The night before Christmas families gather together to make milk and cookies for Santa. The food that is usually prepared for Christmas is ham, macaroni, collard greens...
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...The smell awoke me like a slap to the face. I was on my knees, chasing the aroma like a puppy. I was all over the place that chilly, breezy November morning. Thanksgiving was here. The dinner for that night had started early that morning when the sun decided to smile at us. Generally Thanksgiving is a holiday my family and I celebrate together annually. This holiday was created to sit among loved ones and cherish each other. However, it was also created to be thankful for whatever your most prized possessions may be. “The holiday feast dates back to November 1621, when the newly arrived Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians gathered at Plymouth for an autumn harvest celebration, an event regarded as America’s “First Thanksgiving” (First thanksgiving...
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