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The First Thanksgiving

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Some years after the first colony of Jamestown was started in the Americas,

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a group of English families sailed across the ocean.

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They have been called the Pilgrims.

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The King of England wants everyone to go to the same church, they said.

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We want to live in a place where we can worship God in our own way.

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The Pilgrims started a town called Plymouth in the part of America called New England.

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During the first long, cold winter, they were sick and hungry.

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But spring came at last, and everyone felt better.

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One day, some Indians visited Plymouth.

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Redman wants to be friends, they said.

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The Indians helped the pilgrims to hunt and fish.

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They showed them how to plant corn.

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The next fall, the people of Plymouth had plenty to eat from their gardens,

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and they invited the Indians to a big feast.

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The men hunted for wild turkeys.

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The boys and girls gathered berries.

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The women cooked and cooked.

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One November day in 1621, pilgrims and Indians gathered around two long tables filled with golden ears of corn and turkey roasted to a crispy brown.

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This was the first Thanksgiving dinner in America. The feast lasted for three days. The Indian chief, Massasoit, and his braids dined with the pilgrims.