Taking Time to Be Thankful Around the World
Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States that occurs on the fourth Thursday of November each year. Legend has it that the “first Thanksgiving” was celebrated in November 1621, after the Pilgrim’s first successful corn harvest. The true history is rather different, especially from the point of view of the Wampanoag, the Indian nation on whose land the Pilgrims arrived. Ramona Peters, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, describes the event: “The true history of Thanksgiving starts with a treaty.… It basically said we’d let them