The Truth behind Thanksgiving

The Truth Behind Thanksgiving

Most people think of Thanksgiving as a great time for a feast, or “Finally!  Four days away from school!”  The true meaning of thanksgiving was lost long ago.  You look forward to the turkey, or the raspberry sauce, and totally forget that Pilgrims and the Native Americans had the first thanksgiving in 1621.  

Can you believe that they didn’t have turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce?  You know the best part of any thanksgiving dinner is the pie(as pie is the enemy of cake)!  They didn’t have that!  All these foods we have on this holiday were started by Sarah Josepha Hale(the woman who wrote “Mary Had A Little Lamb”).  

Most people think that Thanksgiving was a peaceful holiday, but it wasn’t.  The Pilgrims were puritans.  Puritans are members of a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th century.  These people regarded the Reformation of the Church of England by Queen Elizabeth as incomplete.  So they sought to regulate and simplify forms of worship.  The Pilgrims believed that anybody who didn’t have the same beliefs as them should be “purified.”  Since the Native Americans didn’t conform to their beliefs, the Pilgrims enslaved the strong and sent them to England, the weak, woman, and children, were all murdered.