Thanksgiving is a Wonderful Event
Thanksgiving is a time for the family. Everybody just seems to be excited on Thanksgiving because it is a time to reunite with the whole family. To many, Thanksgiving is a sacred event.
In Canada and the United States, Thanksgiving is consists of food, family, friends and giving thanks for one’s blessings. Although it is considered a secular holiday, both the religious and non-religious observe it as a day to count the things one has to be grateful for. The modern-day Thanksgiving that Americans and Canadians observe, with its traditional menu and activities, is worlds apart from the early feasts and ceremonies that were observed by the European colonists and explorers of North America.
Also, for a brief history of Thanksgiving,
Although most North Americans agree that the first Thanksgiving took place sometime between 21 September and 11 November 1621 at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts, there are other earlier feasts and ceremonies of thanksgiving that vie for the designation as the first true Thanksgiving. In Canada, the first Thanksgiving took place in 1578, when English Explorer Martin Frobisher celebrated the establishment of a colony in what is now the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In what is now the United States, some believe that the first real Thanksgiving feast took place on 23 May 1541 in modern-day Texas. The feast was celebrated by explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and the Native Americans he called the Tejas. The feast took place to celebrate a discovery of additional supplies of food. Another Thanksgiving in the running is 8 September 1565, when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés feasted with Native Americans in what is now Florida. In Texas, on 30 April 1598, Don Juan de Oñate celebrated with the Manso Indians. No matter where or when it actually occurred, it seems clear that the history of Thanksgiving in North America is uniquely linked to the generosity of the continent’s first nations to those who had recently arrived.
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