what happened at the "first Thanksgiving"?

Question

I mean the "first Thanksgiving"~

Answer 1

What happened was the English colonists had had a difficult year. They worked like dogs, and they survived only because the Amerind neighbors told them about corn and helped them.

So, having brought in their harvest for the first time--with enough to last the winter, and let them stay on,--what did they do? Like right-wing puritans, they gave their governor extra powers and credited their 'god' with all that their hard work
had accomplished.

Fortunately, being smarter than their 2006 right-wing extremist cousins, they invited the Indians who had been friendly and ran races, did games and sat down to dinner together.

That's why I call it the Harvest Day festival, and the pseudo-religious types call it "Thanksgiving Day". And we're both right by our standards.

By the way, the Indians brought four deer they'd killed and probably someone had shot a wild turkey or two; but the menu is still being argued about after all these years.

Answer 2

the pilgrims dressed in funny hats and shoes with buckles had a picnic dinner with the indians that wore leather clothes and feathers on their heads. they ate wild turkey and popcorn and drank whiskey. it was very fun. then they all played tag football afterwards.

Answer 3

native americans gave the starving settlers food and the starving settlers gave the native americans syphilis, the plague, and other assorted diseases, they were very generous considering that those diseases were all that they had of value and glass bead of course, but those are what they used to buy land

Answer 4

I know that they didn't eat potatoes because they thought they were poisonous.