2006-11-10 16:00:15 · 7 answers · asked by xoxo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
As a kid, I was always taught that the Indians (Native Americans) introduced turkey, among other foods, to the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving. I don't know if that's true, but since turkey is certainly a New World bird, not know in Europe prior to North American settlement, it sounds like as good a story as any. Eat hearty!
2006-11-10 16:05:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Several American colonists have personal accounts of the 1621 feast in Massachusetts:
William Bradford, in Of Plymouth Plantation:
"They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their house and dwelling against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a peck of meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were not feigned by true reports."
2006-11-11 00:08:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the turkey was the largest food bird around the starving pilgrims and they didnt travel and hunt and gather like the indians so they smoked the turkey meat and the deer to eat through winter also they were abundant enough so the folkes around thought they should be our national symbol not the eagle ben franklin
2006-11-11 00:05:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Indians ,the turkey was native to the American forrests
and indians had been eating them forever.
they also had a harvest day with lots of produce.
the Pilgrims liked the idea and copied it.
although the indians eating turkey was not confined to thanks giving day i think,they probably ate them all the time
2006-11-11 00:08:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Native North American that kept the Pilgrims from starving to death. His name was Samoset. It must have shocked the hell out of the Puritans when they were greeted in English by him.
2006-11-11 00:10:10 · answer #5 · answered by Barabas 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a chicken
2006-11-11 00:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
PILGRIMS ROANOKE VIRGINIA..
WITH INDIANS.
2006-11-11 00:05:51 · answer #7 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋