Library of the Piligrims The First Thanksgiving

1. Library of the Piligrims The First Thanksgiving Table of Contents Chapter Page Harvest 6 Festival Time 7 Invited Guests 11 All are Welcome 15 Dinner Time 18 Menu 22 A Three-Day Feast 28 Thanksgiving Today 29 Glossary 33 Index 34 Web Sites 36 Terri Perry Winnfield Publishing

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3. A Three-Day Feast The celebration began after the food was blessed. The pilgrims thanked god for their bountiful harvest. They also thanked the Wampanoag for helping them with the harvest. They remembered the 47 men, women and children who died from cold and sickness the first winter.Then the celebration began. The pilgrims and the Wampanoag had a great feast. They ate and danced. They sang songs and played games for three days.

4. Glossary braves – Native Americans who are trained to fight celebrate – to have a party or honor a special event colonies - the communities that colonists built in America feast – a large, fancy meal for a lot of people on a special event harvest time -the time when farmers gather their crops settlement – a small village or group of houses spit- a metal rod that holds meat over a fire for cooking squanto – Squanto was the last surviving Patuxet indian. He lived with the Pilgrims and taught them how to farm, fish and hunt. starvation – to suffer ordie from hunger. tradition – a way of doing somethng that is jpassed down through the years trenchers – Plates of wood, or bread, that are hollowed out to hold food. Wampanoag – a group of Native Americans who lived in massachusetts and Rhode Island

5. Index B L S Bradford, Governor William Lincoln, Pres. Abraham Squanto, 21 6, 9, 21 22 E M T England 5, 9 Mayflower, 5 Treaty, 21 Massasoit, Chief 11 trenchers, 14 G P W “ Great Sickness” 10 Pilgrims, 6,8,11, 14 Wampanoag, 11, 18, 21 Plymouth, 6, 9.10 potatoes, 9, 14 H pumpkin pie, 29 Harvest, 6, 18

6. Titles in this Series The Mayflower William Bradford Myles Standish Pocantoee Squanto