The REAL Thanksgving STORY, the Pilgrims and Indians

Whether we realize it or not, we all have an image of the first Thanksgiving that’s more or less a cartoon we were taught in grade school.

In the autumn of 1621, a group of buckle-shoed Pilgrims and stoic yet friendly Indians feasted together after a successful autumn harvest, heralding a promising new friendship between their two peoples.

The actual history of the first Thanksgiving is of course nothing like the grade-school story—it’s far more interesting and complex