History Final paper

First Thanksgiving

Before studying this article, I had no idea about what Thanksgiving is because we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in our country as we follow Hinduism. I searched a lot in internet about Thanksgiving, but every time I search about it, it would say, “Thanksgiving is the expression of gratitude towards the god by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New land.” But after watching the video and reading the article, I found the concept of Thanksgiving was totally different than what I have learned from internet.

Five things I found interesting about the first Thanksgiving are:

1. Only 1/3 of the travelers of the Mayflower were Pilgrims and Mayflower was the name of the ship in which Pilgrims travelled to the New World.

2. The Pilgrims brought a plague with them which killed more than 95% of Native Americans.

3. Native Americans, who were considered as “Savage” and “Barbarians” taught the travelers and Pilgrims how to take bath.

4. At that time, native Americans were unknown about who brought the illness to their land and blamed god for what was happening.

5. The travelers of Mayflower thought that the native Americans were unadvanced and Savage and it will be easier to betray them.