First Thanksgiving (1621)

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cultural precedent feast harvest celebration historical event

The First Thanksgiving (1621) was a three-day harvest celebration in Plymouth where English Pilgrims and Wampanoag people shared a feast that later became the basis for the modern American Thanksgiving holiday tradition.

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First Thanksgiving	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural precedent ⓘ feast ⓘ harvest celebration ⓘ historical event ⓘ
hasApproximateDate	autumn 1621 ⓘ
hasAssociatedHoliday	Thanksgiving Day ⓘ surface form: Thanksgiving (United States)
hasAssociatedPeople	William Bradford ⓘ surface form: Governor William Bradford Massasoit ⓘ surface form: Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoag Squanto ⓘ surface form: Tisquantum (Squanto)
hasCause	successful harvest of 1621 ⓘ survival of Plymouth Colony after first winter ⓘ
hasCountry	British America ⓘ surface form: English colonial America
hasCuisine	barley ⓘ corn ⓘ peas ⓘ pumpkin ⓘ seafood ⓘ venison ⓘ wildfowl ⓘ
hasCulturalContext	English Puritan traditions ⓘ Wampanoag traditions ⓘ early colonial New England ⓘ
hasDuration	three days ⓘ
hasLegacy	commemorated in U.S. school curricula ⓘ frequent subject of American art and literature ⓘ inspiration for later New England thanksgiving days ⓘ
hasLocation	Plymouth ⓘ Plymouth Colony ⓘ present-day Massachusetts ⓘ
hasModernInterpretation	reexamined in light of colonialism and Native American perspectives ⓘ
hasNumberOfDays	3 ⓘ
hasParticipant	Pilgrims ⓘ surface form: English Pilgrims Massasoit ⓘ Pilgrim Separatists ⓘ surface form: Plymouth colonists Tisquantum ⓘ Wampanoag people ⓘ
hasPrimarySource	Mourt’s Relation ⓘ surface form: Edward Winslow’s Mourt’s Relation Of Plymouth Plantation ⓘ surface form: William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation
hasReligiousAspect	Christian thanksgiving practices ⓘ Pilgrim expressions of thanks to God ⓘ
hasSeason	fall ⓘ
hasSignificance	basis for modern American Thanksgiving holiday tradition ⓘ important event in American national mythology ⓘ symbol of cooperation between colonists and Native Americans ⓘ
hasStartTime	1621 ⓘ
hasTheme	harvest gratitude ⓘ intercultural relations ⓘ survival ⓘ

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Plymouth, Massachusetts → associatedWithEvent → First Thanksgiving (1621) ⓘ

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Plymouth Colony → notableEvent → First Thanksgiving (1621) ⓘ