In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the American colonies. This harvest meal became a symbol of cooperation between the English colonists and Native Americans. Although this feast is considered by many to the very first Thanksgiving celebration, it was actually in keeping with a long tradition of celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops. Native American groups throughout the Americas, including the Pueblo, Cherokee, Creek and many others organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America.
Historians have also recorded other ceremonies of thanks among European settlers in North America, including British colonists in BerkeleyPlantation, Virginia. At this site near the Charles River in December of 1619, a group of British settlers led by Captain John Woodlief knelt in prayer and pledged “Thanksgiving” to God for their healthy arrival after a long voyage across the Atlantic. This event has been acknowledged by some scholars and writers as the official first Thanksgiving among European settlers on record. Whether at Plymouth, BerkeleyPlantation, or throughout the Americas, celebrations of thanks have held great meaning and importance over time.
What do you plan to do?Or what did you do?The English viewed the original Thanksgiving significance as cooperation or collaboration.What is the significance for you today?
This holiday is not only a time to be thankful and grateful for everything we have but it is also a day where we can spend time with our families and show how much we appreciate them. Not only did my family show their gratitude and share their thanks for Thanksgiving this year, we all did so much more. From festive music and dancing to making a meal for friends and family members, we enjoyed every bit of it. Some of us even met family members we never knew we had before. It was a great experience for all of us as it usually is, and i’m sure that it was just as great an experience for our ancestors, if not better.
So many people today get caught up in so many other things, different things that always take up their time. Kids today are addicted to the internet and other electronics that usually almost always keep them busy. In fact, it keeps them so busy that family members don’t always understand the kind of kid he/she is anymore. Same with adults. They either do the same, or they get caught up in another distraction such as work, phone calls, etc. It’s not a bad thing to to use modern technology, but I don’t think it should be abused either. It’s hard to get to know your relatives or spend time with them if they’re always preoccupied with other things.
I agree that the significance of Thanksgiving is to spend more time with your relatives, friends, loved ones, etc. and come together as a family. Spending time with friends and family shouldn’t only be done on the holidays.
Thanksgiving has always been awkward for my family because some of my family members are crazy. This year was pretty easy going though because my family had everything pretty well planned out. My mom just made the basics, turkey macaroni and cheese, stuffing. And im not going to complain. It was one of the best Thanksgivings I’ve ever had. Thanksgiving is a collaboration depending on how your family celebrates it. Some families just pick up a pizza and call it a day. Others split apart different dishes between family members, and everyone comes together to create a feast. My thanksgiving dinners with my family have always been collaborations. I think that most thanksgivings are collaborations and it has helped me to appreciate my family more, and its a time to just be thankful for everything I have.
Well I’m native american and have taken interest in my people’s history. I have read some books and taken some classes and talked to the chiefs and gone to the missions and many other things. I really doubt this “First thanksgiving” was really this ROSEY! As for it being a “symbol of cooperation between the English colonists and Native Americans” I don’t know. It could of been that the Idnians were being submitive to the colonists.
However I do believe the idians did give and help the colonist out when it came to food and agriculture. The native americans always made sure to thank there gods for their many blessings and as did the colonist always thanked God for his many blessings that he gave them.
I have always loved thanksgiving becuse it is one of very few holidays that my whole family gets together, we spend time cooking together, eating together, sharing old memories and making many new ones. Thanksgiving now is sad. Many of my aunts and uncles have died, many more just don’t come around, and many cousins are off doing there own thing, too selfish to give there family a few hours of love. This year my mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, and myself went out to a restraunt to eat. It was way easier than cooking cleaning and many more stressful items that have to be done for thanksgiving. It was pleasant but definatly not as heart warming as the traditional. Late I went to my godparents house. THey and 2 of there 3 children where there along with my father sister and 2 neighbors. It was nice and fun but very sad. There were too few family members, it was hard to be thankful when you were missing so many. I am thankful for what we did have and what we do have. I can’t wait till I have my own family. I am going to make sure to bring everyone together to give thanks and make somethign to be extra thankful for, family, memories together, sharing love, sharing laughter, and most important, sharing of ourselves with others.
THis would tyruely make thanks giving a collaberation and cooperation and many peopl’s part. We need to remember old traditions and keep them strong. Those are what are most needed in our chaotic lives.
This holiday is not only a time to be thankful and grateful for everything we have but it is also a day where we can spend time with our families and show how much we appreciate them. Not only did my family show their gratitude and share their thanks for Thanksgiving this year, we all did so much more. From festive music and dancing to making a meal for friends and family members, we enjoyed every bit of it. Some of us even met family members we never knew we had before. It was a great experience for all of us as it usually is, and i’m sure that it was just as great an experience for our ancestors, if not better.
So many people today get caught up in so many other things, different things that always take up their time. Kids today are addicted to the internet and other electronics that usually almost always keep them busy. In fact, it keeps them so busy that family members don’t always understand the kind of kid he/she is anymore. Same with adults. They either do the same, or they get caught up in another distraction such as work, phone calls, etc. It’s not a bad thing to to use modern technology, but I don’t think it should be abused either. It’s hard to get to know your relatives or spend time with them if they’re always preoccupied with other things.
I agree that the significance of Thanksgiving is to spend more time with your relatives, friends, loved ones, etc. and come together as a family. Spending time with friends and family shouldn’t only be done on the holidays.
Thanksgiving has always been awkward for my family because some of my family members are crazy. This year was pretty easy going though because my family had everything pretty well planned out. My mom just made the basics, turkey macaroni and cheese, stuffing. And im not going to complain. It was one of the best Thanksgivings I’ve ever had. Thanksgiving is a collaboration depending on how your family celebrates it. Some families just pick up a pizza and call it a day. Others split apart different dishes between family members, and everyone comes together to create a feast. My thanksgiving dinners with my family have always been collaborations. I think that most thanksgivings are collaborations and it has helped me to appreciate my family more, and its a time to just be thankful for everything I have.
Well I’m native american and have taken interest in my people’s history. I have read some books and taken some classes and talked to the chiefs and gone to the missions and many other things. I really doubt this “First thanksgiving” was really this ROSEY! As for it being a “symbol of cooperation between the English colonists and Native Americans” I don’t know. It could of been that the Idnians were being submitive to the colonists.
However I do believe the idians did give and help the colonist out when it came to food and agriculture. The native americans always made sure to thank there gods for their many blessings and as did the colonist always thanked God for his many blessings that he gave them.
I have always loved thanksgiving becuse it is one of very few holidays that my whole family gets together, we spend time cooking together, eating together, sharing old memories and making many new ones. Thanksgiving now is sad. Many of my aunts and uncles have died, many more just don’t come around, and many cousins are off doing there own thing, too selfish to give there family a few hours of love. This year my mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, and myself went out to a restraunt to eat. It was way easier than cooking cleaning and many more stressful items that have to be done for thanksgiving. It was pleasant but definatly not as heart warming as the traditional. Late I went to my godparents house. THey and 2 of there 3 children where there along with my father sister and 2 neighbors. It was nice and fun but very sad. There were too few family members, it was hard to be thankful when you were missing so many. I am thankful for what we did have and what we do have. I can’t wait till I have my own family. I am going to make sure to bring everyone together to give thanks and make somethign to be extra thankful for, family, memories together, sharing love, sharing laughter, and most important, sharing of ourselves with others.
THis would tyruely make thanks giving a collaberation and cooperation and many peopl’s part. We need to remember old traditions and keep them strong. Those are what are most needed in our chaotic lives.