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The invention of thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving note to clients. Thanksgiving which occurs on the fourth thursday in november is based on the colonial pilgrims 1621 harvest meal. Americans generally believe that their thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the european colonists pilgrims of plymouth and the wampanoag people. History now the gilder lehrman institute of american history.

Beginning in 1970 a group of native americans and their supporters have staged an annual protest for a national day of mourning at plymouth rock in plymouth massachusetts on thanksgiving day. The making of the domestic occasion. For that reason native americans and supporters have gathered at noon on coles hill in plymouth to commemorate a national day of mourning on thanksgiving day since 1970.

Yet others believe thanksgiving truly began when in 1637 massachusetts colony governor john winthrop declared a day to give thanks for the fact that colonial soldiers had recently slaughtered over seven hundred members of the pequot tribe including women and children in connecticut. Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the united states canada brazil grenada saint lucia and liberia and the sub national entities leiden norfolk island and puerto ricoit began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Thanksgiving day annual national holiday in the united states and canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year.

A ritual of american nationality critique of anthropology 122 1992. The holiday continues to be a day for americans to gather for a day of feasting. In the modern consciousness thanksgiving is strongly associated with the near mythological story of the pilgrims at plymouth the english colonists and their wampanoag indian neighbors who shared a meal to celebrate the harvest in 1621.

However days of thanksgiving on a variety of occasions have been celebrated throughout american history. Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the united states celebrated on the fourth thursday of november. Thanksgiving day has been an annual holiday in the united states since 1863.

However not everyone sees thanksgiving day as a cause for celebration.