The story of the PIlgrim's Thanksgiving feast in 1621 is one we all learned in school. After a disastrous first winter in America, they gave thanks for a bountiful harvest. The Wampanoag people, who helped them learn to grow and find food, joined them for a three-day celebration.
But that was just a short interlude of brotherhood that explained the holiday. Since we were children, they glossed over that first winter, in which many Pilgrims died, including all but four of the adult women. And what came after was a bloody war between the ever-growing number of European colonists and the native population.
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