The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...

(The Center Square) – As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving this year, many believe the first thanksgiving was held in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. However, the first Thanksgiving celebration was ...

Thanksgiving is steeped in stories of pilgrims and native people enjoying a harvest feast in Plymouth. But historians say the first "Thanksgiving" was 23 years earlier, in 1598 along the Rio Grande.

BEAUFORT — The story of the first Thanksgiving in North America nearly perfectly embodies the truism that history is written by the victors. Representations of the “first” Thanksgiving are rife with ...