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Tradition says the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in sixteen twenty-one. The Pilgrims were religious dissidents who fled oppression in England. First they to the Netherlands, then left to establish a colony in North America. They ended up at what later known as Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Their trip across the Atlantic Ocean and their first months on land were difficult. About one hundred Pilgrims just as autumn was turning to winter. About half of them during the cold months that followed.
As the story , when spring came the Pilgrims planted crops with the help of an American Indian named Squanto. By the end of summer there was a good harvest of corn and barley. There was enough food to last through the winter. The Pilgrims a celebration of thanks for their harvest. A nearby Indian tribe, the Wampanoags, part and the feast lasted three days.

But modern Indians have noted that the friendship did not for long. Other English settlers who arrived later did not need help from the Indians the way the Pilgrims . The Indians and the settlers at war within a few years. Many of the Wampanoag Indians died in battle or from diseases that arrived with the settlers.