48+ Pilgrims Thanksgiving Background. Our national holiday really stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the pilgrims and the wampanoag to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest. The event that americans commonly call the first thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims after their first harvest in the new world in october 1621.
But the wampanoag indians befriended them and taught them how to fish and grow crops.
Teach students about this period in american history with thanksgiving activities, resources, lesson plans, and teaching ideas about the voyage of the mayflower, the daily life of the pilgrims and the wampanoag, and the first thanksgiving feast. The 1621 thanksgiving celebration marked the pilgrims' first autumn harvest, so it is likely that the colonists feasted on the bounty they had reaped with the help of their native american. Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first thanksgiving dinner kickback to the indians for subsidizing pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. About 100 pilgrims sailed to america on the mayflower.
