„Thanksgiving Day in the United States abounds with historic images of black-hatted, silver-buckled Pilgrims joining Native Americans in an outdoor New England feast of wild fowl, fish and grain. Certainly today’s Thanksgiving feast is inspired by the traditional stories about the Pilgrims, but this celebration isn’t exactly the very first American Thanksgiving.
Consider this: The 1564 French Huguenots in Florida … the 1598 Spanish conquistadors near present-day El Paso … the 1610 Virginia settlers of Jamestown – they all hold claim to celebrating the „first” Thanksgiving in North America before the arrival of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts.”
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