Peter Mancall

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Something You Should Know · The Real Story of Thanksgiving - Bonus Holiday Episode · 12 Nov 2025 podcast

And so, you know, there are some who are absolutely embracing, let's get together.

But at that very first moment, I think it's really a sense of sort of, well, what can you do for me?

I'm still a little nervous about things.

Yes, in the documents, some of the English often refer to them as Indians.

It's a word that dates back, it's 100 years old by then.

In some of the documents, we see them using the more characteristic word, which is American.

I mean, that word Americans starts as a European reference to Native Americans that are the occupants of this newly named place that the Europeans call America.

But by the time we get to the pilgrims, they're using the word Indians.

So according to the documentary evidence, and the documentary is very fragmentary.

We have one letter from one of the pilgrims, and then we have a somewhat more detailed count of an event two years later.

It is basically the pilgrims celebrating the bringing in of their corn, celebrating their first harvest.

That is, they'd learned quickly from the Algonquians, from the Wampanoags, how to grow corn.

And so they start to feast, and in this brief document they basically say, we invited our neighbors to come by.

and Massasoit, who's the local leader, and approximately 90 others of his people who are Wampanoags.

We invited them to come, and they stayed for three days.

And during those three days, we feasted on venison and fowl, as well as corn, and we presumed that that fowl was turkey.

And that's why turkey gets integrated into sort of the myth of the earliest Thanksgiving.

They don't have regular Thanksgivings.

I mean, so this is one of the features of where sort of American history and American myths sort of depart.

So in 1621, we have this meal.

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