If you celebrate Thanksgiving, you may have big meal with your family and then play games or watch football. You may also watch a parade Thanksgiving day. The Pilgrims and the Wampanoag's celebration was different than the way we celebrate now. Try to find the answers these questions with the websites below.
- Did they sing, dance, play games, or just talk?
- How long did the celebration last?
The websites below give some answers of what happened during that feast. It was a very long time ago and very little was written about the feast.
Pilgrim's echo
Click on the above link to listen to two portrayed accounts by the History Channel of Miles Standish and Ellinor Billington about their role during the feast. Click on their name under "What was your role in the harvest feast of 1621?" You can also read the interviews.
This website are the actually words that were written about the first Thanksgiving feast by two people that were there, Edward Winslow and William Bradford.
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