What Was the First Thanksgiving?

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Learn more about the history of the feast that started off as a harvest celebration and has now become a national holiday.

After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors. Of course, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag didn’t know it at the time, but they were making history.

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Product # P1865-G
Author Joan Holub; Who HQ
Grade Level 3-7
Interest Level 3-7
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Guided Reading Level S
Lexile Level 690
Publisher Putnam
Multicultural Native American