I have studied early American history of New England for many years and have been angry and heartbroken by those who tell a false story of the first Thanksgiving. Your rendition is closer to the truth than any I have heard. Actually it is not closer to the truth, it is the truth. Thankyou so much for sharing the real truth of the first Thanksgiving.
Jesus brought the Pilgrims to America as the new promise land since Israel was long gone in 1620. They brought the English translation of the ancient scriptures KJV Bible. The Pilgrims made arrangements with merchants, explorers and map makers from Europe using European money, to help them establish the new land. The first Thanksgiving was celebrating the first harvest in the new land and they were friends with the Indians on that day. The Indian wars didn't start until the British Navy arrived, chasing the defectors, convinced the Indians to kill the settlers under false pretenses. We honor the pilgrims who discovered America, for many reasons including the fact that Columbus when he arrived, didn't know where he was. It was Americo Vespucio who discovered the Continent, and it was named after him.
King Philips War in 1675 was the name of an Indian who gave himself an English name. He fought against the New England Province. He was educated and knew how to read and write, then fell back into the occult mentality to honor his occult tribal ways. His Dad was friends with the Plymouth MA. Look it up. @@Spartan-yq4qp
It's good to remember that once in awhile we should set aside our differences, help each other, and come together to enjoy some good food, drink, and thanks!
Thanks for the history about thanks giving I went to my church and heard about u'r story from my uncle which is a pastor from my village and it's a nice and a wonderful story he shared at the church. Thank you for your information it is nice to learn about history.
Actually the treaty lasted for 50 years with Plymouth. In which no land could be developed without being purchased from the Massasoit tribe. The settlers at in Plymouth were very different then the settlers in JamesTown and desired peace.
@@CaliforniaFarmGirl yeah I caught that too. I was curious after watching another "history" that said he was freed by Catholic priests. I fear the internet will not be the way we learn history.😥
Our teachers would also leave out the part when, soon European settlers turned on the Wampanoag and other native tribes. Within a few decades, most natives would die at the hands of settlers if they weren’t already dying from smallpox they brought over. And shortly after the first Thanksgiving feast, settlers were literally giving thanks for the death of hundreds of natives after the Pequot Massacre of 1637, where 700 natives were brutally slaughtered.
Where is the credit for the story? Would you note the sources for the information? It seems today that Thanksgiving is being overlooked for a gross misspelling of the history.
Good job. Great narrative. It is interesting that the current racist 1619 fails to mention that when slaves arrived near Jamestown, Pilgrims were arriving in Plymouth in 1620 While Jamestown eventually vanished, and slavery eventually abolished.... the pilgrim's Thanksgiving festival and principles of democracy still live on.
You skipped the part where they ended up in Holland one time and had to leave because they were afraid that their children will see themselves as "Dutch" instead of English.
Exactly. The Pilgrims were English Calvinist who fled to Holland in 1609 to avoid prosecution from the English church-state. They resided in Amsterdam for a short time. Within months they moved to what is now the city of Leiden and lived there for ten years before they boarded the Mayflower headed to the new world. The Mayflower Compact was a socialist experiment that failed in the first year. It was quickly scrapped for a system in which the land was divided amongst the surviving families after the first winter and each family was than allowed to keep and sell what each produced. The first "Thanksgiving" we celebrate today was a feast that Calvinist colony had, inviting the natives, to celebrate overcoming the failures of the Mayflower Compact. Certainly the atrocities inflicted on indigenous peoples that happened as more boats from Europe arrived into the New World were terrible. But that is a completely separate story than the Thanksgiving story. Though history is certainly one giant story, it would be the equivalent of jumping right from the communist revolution in 1917 in Russia to the invasion of Ukraine in 2020 and 2022. I mean... a whole lot of things happened in between and even the leaders are different people. MUCH like the European settlement of the east coast in the 17th century.
I thought the puritans were escaping the anglican church or episcopalians, not catholics...... In fact, they thought the anglican church was TOO catholic. So they were protestants escaping protestantism.
they were escaping the oppression of the church. The catholic cult has always been and continues to be an evil cult. monopolizing on peoples fears, abusing children, money rackets like no other religious group, not teaching the Word of God, trying to play God by hearing confessions, and the list goes on.
They didn't sign the mayflower compact because their claim to the land was dodgy. They signed it because half the people on board weren't pilgrims, they were secular and they had had fighting on board already and as soon as they got to land the two groups wanted to split. But the leader of the pilgrims kept them together and said they wouldn't survive if they separated. That's also where the problems with the Indians came from despite the pilgrims getting a bad rap for it.
You completely omitted their stay in Leiden before they even crossed the Atlantic. They did not leave England and directly set sail for the Americas. Nor were they colonists in the strict sense of the word once they reached present-day Massachusetts.
The Bible prophesied about it clear back in Genesis. Anyone who knew, read, and studied the Scriptures knew that the Europeans would come settle in the Americas.
Crikey, that was really interesting & really well done. Amazing. I’ve heard the story before even studied the period at school etc here in the uk. I live close to Southampton(a port rather than a harbour) & have visited Plymouth many times (still a beautiful place) and remember thinking.... fancy leaving these waters in September for the America’s. Love this download & god bless America & happy thanksgiving 🇺🇸
This isn't the first Thanksgiving. The aboriginals of America already were celebrating their Thanksgivings long before any foreigner came. They has 13 Thanksgivings that were celebrated every moon. The one that was celebrated around this time of year was the fall harvest thanksgiving done on the blue moon. This was never a foreigners idea first. But they take everything from us even our true identities. 😢
Someone obviously had good intentions in there heart to create this Holiday of Peace & Being Thankful & making it Major Holiday. If your really about Peace you wouldn't try to attack Thanksgiving Holiday.
Have you ever played that game where you an 10 others are in a circle one person speaks something into one's ear and when it gets back to you it's different ? What color is Jesus Christ ?
There are two different flags on the "Mayflower" in this video: the Union jack, (a.k.a. "the King's Colours," the Union Flag, etc.) and the other one is the national flag of Denmark (a white cross on a red background). The national flag of England is a red cross upon a white background. I had to bring this to your attention, and that of others watching! Good content, otherwise. (My family was among those who fled the reign of "Bloody Mary," fleeing to the Netherlands. When they saw their children losing their cultural identity and saw how they were becoming more "Dutch" . . . Seeing that Queen Mary had been replaced upon the throne by Queen Elizabeth 1, they decided to return "home" to England. Some continued on to make the crossing to the New World, but my ancestors chose to remain in England for a while - crossing to the U.S., via Montreal, Canada, in the early 1820's. Thanks for sharing the Real Story of Thanksgiving with us!
Wrong that is not what thanksgiving was made to celebrate, thats what you have been conditioned to believe you are celebrating so that you can spend all that money on the holiday when the energy is tied to what happened that brought about that thanksgiving. It was the massacre of the Piquot people that thanksgiving was a celebration of. You wanting to justify it with your own purpose doesnt change what is being fed by your energy.
@@azarelthecreator7098 The Pequot Massacre was a horrible thing but it happened six years later in Connecticut under Captain John Mason in the spring of 1627. While these two events may have connections I'm not aware of, I'm certainly no expert, we're talking about the first thanksgiving. Are you saying this is where the tradition comes from, celebrating a victory in a battle? Idk, but that's not what I celebrate at thanksgiving.
@@wooddogg8 We don't celebrate the first Thanksgiving, that's where you have been miss educated. Our yearly celebration of today came from the celeb action of the piquot massacre. They have taught the population lies to keep them celebrating these horrendous events as something they aren't.
@@wooddogg8 yes it's celebrating winning that battle with the indiginous people. They bragged about being able to smell the burning flesh of the people they burned alive. They were giving thanks for the new lands they were able to take and that they won the war they started with those people.
@@azarelthecreator7098 OK. But you can't tell people what they're celebrating. Even if the origins of the holiday go back to the massacre, what people celebrate today is based on family and gratitude and the story presented in this video and not the killing. Sadly, most people are unaware of that history anyway.
It's a curious detail. The settlers didn't know what it was, and it seemed to only hit the local villages. So that's what they called it. Now we know it's likely any of the myriad of diseases the European settlers brought with them.
This was a while ago, but I suspect I cut it for time as it details the narrative and doesn't add anything to the story. They leave for Holland for a year, then come back sail from England again with no major changes in between. I meant to include a line about it, but sadly it must have been lost in the edit.
Man, thank you so much for this video. I am so sick of everyone focusing on atrocities committed in the past, that they taint even the slightest good done by mankind. History has enough shameful things, so I do not see why people see fit to create such hateful views on the few moments that can be looked on proudly. This video was awesome man, and thanks for reminding me about Samoset- he was one of my favorite people in my history books as a kid.
I still love 🦃 Thanksgiving, spending time with my family, thanking God for the food I eat, for what I have and for what I don't have. It's a shame the whining victims need to spread the negativity...
My Ancestor, William Brewster, was the Chaplain of the Mayflower, so I thoroughly enjoyed this account of the first Thanksgiving. Again it seems the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Very well done video! Thank you for your work! On a side note though, why does it seem like every Thanksgiving explanation video always starts out with the cliche, "You might think the first Thanksgiving was when Pilgrims and Natives came together peacefully to celebrate the Harvest, but that's wrong!," despite by itself although simplified, isn't wrong at all.
He was saying like. Kings James and Charles, especially through Archbishop Laud, were moving Reformation backwards, hence his comments. To them, the church was too much an instrument of the leaders of the state.
Jesus brought the Pilgrims to America as the new promise land since Israel was long gone in 1620. They brought the English translation of the ancient scriptures KJV Bible. The Pilgrims made arrangements with merchants, explorers and map makers from Europe using European money, to help them establish the new land. The first Thanksgiving was celebrating the first harvest in the new land and they were friends with the Indians on that day. The Indian wars didn't start until the British Navy arrived, chasing the defectors, convinced the Indians to kill the settlers under false pretenses. We honor the pilgrims who discovered America, for many reasons including the fact that Columbus when he arrived, didn't know where he was. It was Americo Vespucio who discovered the Continent, and it was named after him.
nice and largely accurate you missed the slaughter of the natives by the puritans and the pilgrims went to Holland first. also yes Squanto was taken captive as a slave but those that took him and those like him, were the ones that brought the plaque that killed off the people as i said ypu werr thorough but omitted necessary detail where honestey is necessary.
Slaughter? Three were wounded when searching for Corbitant, the man who kidnapped Squanto. Hence the knock a few heads together. Later, after the events of this video, there is a full blown war called Prince Phillips War. But as this video focuses on the first Thanksgiving it's outside our purview. As for Holland, I begin the story on the docks because that part confuses the narrative. They're English. They left from England. It was a short stay. Nothing happened there. If this were a longer video I could have gone into that.
I find your user name quite ironic when viewed alongside this statement. We all make exceptions to our own codes, so I'm not implying you are any different than others.
@@codybonds We live in such Divisive Times, have you considered making a video to address this persons comments and the misconceptions of these events? You should put together another video covering the topic of the initial set up following these events and where the ideas and misconceptions of this era in history are wrong or right. Some think the natives were utterly shit on. Other think the pilgrims were saints. Clearly neither of these are true. Everyone has an ancestor that was an asshole, someway somehow.
The human race back then celebrated Thanksgiving and dealt with an epidemic the human race now celebrates Thanksgiving and dealing with an epidemic the human race sure has come a long way baby
Sigh. Well. This is one of the better versions. Fish and seafood were absurdly abundant as were all kinds of edible birds. Berries were everywhere. The Indians did bring 5 Deer after realizing there wasn’t enough food to feed all the men they unexpectedly brought. No sugar was left in 1620, so they didn’t have cranberry sauce as we do until some years later. Indians were Stone Age people who routinely wiped out other tribes for land which would be conquered and populated and then fought over again just as every type of human in every country has since Homo Sapiens began. However we came with guns and metal knives and cooking pots, all kinds of things they wanted. We also brought horses and plows. Endless truces or alliances formed over the past 400 years which shifted and both sides broke trust. We brought Civilization to the area we call the US as was always going to happen. No one would learn about bacteria and diseases for hundreds of years. We did not arrive intending genocide or treachery. There were Protestant Sailors, Pilgrims and Puritans. As deals were made and villages set up both Europeans and Indians learned from each other. But frankly they had very little to teach us. Roger Williams would soon go south to Providence and buy land there. He wrote the peace treaty that held 70 years. He wrote the 1st book translation of Native Algonquin to English in 1643. He welcomes Jewish People. French Catholics, All Religions were welcome in Rhode Island. The Mayflower would make 4 trips and within 10 years the Winthrop Fleet arrived with farm animals, cloth, books, seeds, tools, Blacksmiths, things not yet available. Native tribes never invented the wheel, nor metals, nor any ability to sail, no writing. No architecture, no farming methods like crop rotation. Whether it be Greece, Egypt, China, South American Incas, most humans had evolved and we brought modernity that was practically Magic to Massachusetts. They never learned to make beer or nevermind Gin or Whiskey or Brandy. The US was in no way Disease free prior to 1620, in fact possibly as many as 90% of New England natives had died prior to us landing, leaving little problem starting to build houses and villages on great bays along the ocean. Slavery existed in every culture in every country in every century and Native Tribes not only took slaves, they tortured and killed with slow savage methods in some cases. Whites never invented Slavery. Indians in fighting us would take captives as slaves or to be ransomed. History of Humans is brutal, endlessly complex and no generalization does any situation justice. I will make one: People everywhere are generally good and do the best they can with what they know and with the circumstances in the moment. In 1620 there was no malice of forethought in the Mayflower. Deals were made, negotiations took place hundreds of times over that men shook on and considered adequate on both sides. As things changed, so too did agreements and alliances. No person can withstand 2023 retroactive “Purity” tests of today’s norms. Whether you lived in an African country in 1620 or Arab, India or Asia, North or South America land and property have been fought over all of human History. Families who moved here had no bloodlust to fight Natives. They wanted a chance to live without an English Officer coming to their door and executing them. Civilization was coming, be it English citizens, Spain, Portugal, France, the Dutch. Had the Mayflower group all died. More Europeans were going to arrive and did every year going forward to today. This was inevitable. Thanksgiving was to thank God. In most American homes it still is a day to be thankful and count our Blessings and the abundance we enjoy with those we love most.
I'm sorry but I personally know some of this is inaccurate. they where a discriminatory group when it comes to other religions because of this they where kicked out of England and went to the Netherlands because as they where the only country that will accept them, then eventually they chose to leave the Netherlands because they thought they were too weird also they're real name was separatists do you see why countries didn't like them
@@chrislad24 the problem is your so-called history and anyone else who wants to demonize a group of people and say they were discriminatory and stereotype a group of people that just want freedom of religion and to be left alone.
@@DS-md7jn LOL you really really need to look into them, "people that just want freedom of religion and to be left alone" they attacked people for there religion and would not leave them alone.
@@letterbox203 End of the starving times: May 23, 1610 marked by the arrival of ships Deliverance and Patience. I would argue that this event is one reason why thanksgiving is celebrated. 1619 was the first celebration along the James River there were 55 people present and it lasted 10-15 minutes.
Actually the 1st known Thanksgiving happen in 1541 at Palo Duro Caynon Texas on May 29 for the army accompanying Spanish conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado.
Well... this is one side of the story. But unfortunately this story has so many unverified facts, I actually started thinking I was watching some sort of Late night TV comedy sketch. SMH
Is this for real?! Coming from Indian/English/ French Heritage. This is NOT What we were taught in our house and what was spoken of passed down on the timeline. My family bloodline comes from love and just because their was extremists in each race, doesnt mean that ALL french/indian or Indian/British were in that mindset. This is extremely biased. Like a pendulum it depends on what story or side you want to victimize or shine a spotlight on. I choose Love stories and the actual beauty that was formed between the two Heritages that created the love and light between the two races....
I always try and encourage people to do a bit of digging on Wikipedia to verify what they've seen. Things of course go very poorly after, but it didn't start that way.
@@codybonds all i know is what has been passed down to me from Generation to Generation. I am proof there was love and unity. Or many wouldnt have the lineage ancestral background. Most wanted peace and new world. Of course, there is always Extremists, shunning the two for procreating. And, of course, you have group of extremists wanting total domination over the opposition. All i can say is love won. We have beautiful hybrids from the races and we celebrate Thanksgiving to remember that. It was uncharted lands for the pilgrims, peaceful, unifying Indians. Showerings the pilgrims with food and how to forage the lands. I know my Ancestors did or that is the story passed down. In any case, war unfolded. But, love and unity won the Battle or we wouldnt have History and we wouldnt have Mixed Races....
Unfortunately it is not the full story nor complete truth, as has better been described in recent years and hence why there continues to be a day of mourning for descendants of the first peoples. Do some googling. It is uncomfortable, especially since we all grew up with a certain angle presented in school., but truth is truth, not our white settler or Bradford version of it.
I have studied early American history of New England for many years and have been angry and heartbroken by those who tell a false story of the first Thanksgiving. Your rendition is closer to the truth than any I have heard. Actually it is not closer to the truth, it is the truth. Thankyou so much for sharing the real truth of the first Thanksgiving.
i like this better than the others since its the truth
Jesus brought the Pilgrims to America as the new promise land since Israel was long gone in 1620. They brought the English translation of the ancient scriptures KJV Bible. The Pilgrims made arrangements with merchants, explorers and map makers from Europe using European money, to help them establish the new land. The first Thanksgiving was celebrating the first harvest in the new land and they were friends with the Indians on that day. The Indian wars didn't start until the British Navy arrived, chasing the defectors, convinced the Indians to kill the settlers under false pretenses. We honor the pilgrims who discovered America, for many reasons including the fact that Columbus when he arrived, didn't know where he was. It was Americo Vespucio who discovered the Continent, and it was named after him.
@@void9837 Damn did Jesus tell you this? Oh wait he isn't real.
@@Spartan-yq4qp don't know whether the story @void9837 is true, but Jesus is real
King Philips War in 1675 was the name of an Indian who gave himself an English name. He fought against the New England Province. He was educated and knew how to read and write, then fell back into the occult mentality to honor his occult tribal ways. His Dad was friends with the Plymouth MA. Look it up. @@Spartan-yq4qp
Pretty accurate telling. Read Of Plymouth Plantation where William Bradford wrote down this story as it happened.Good job.
It's good to remember that once in awhile we should set aside our differences, help each other, and come together to enjoy some good food, drink, and thanks!
I had to watch this in my class for a reason
Thanks for the history about thanks giving I went to my church and heard about u'r story from my uncle which is a pastor from my village and it's a nice and a wonderful story he shared at the church. Thank you for your information it is nice to learn about history.
native side talks about how after helping the settlers out they were mascaraed
Actually the treaty lasted for 50 years with Plymouth. In which no land could be developed without being purchased from the Massasoit tribe. The settlers at in Plymouth were very different then the settlers in JamesTown and desired peace.
Wait so Squanto was taken captive by the other Indians? Dang. That guy had a tough life.
@@CaliforniaFarmGirl yeah I caught that too. I was curious after watching another "history" that said he was freed by Catholic priests. I fear the internet will not be the way we learn history.😥
In addition to being "mascaraed" were they "lipsticked" too?
Our teachers would also leave out the part when, soon European settlers turned on the Wampanoag and other native tribes. Within a few decades, most natives would die at the hands of settlers if they weren’t already dying from smallpox they brought over. And shortly after the first Thanksgiving feast, settlers were literally giving thanks for the death of hundreds of natives after the Pequot Massacre of 1637, where 700 natives were brutally slaughtered.
I would love to hear the natives side of the story of the first Thanksgiving.
Me too
I got a good glimpse of their side (and awakening) from visiting Pequot museum in CT near Foxwoods. Fun fact, Wampanoag means "people of the light"
Each tribe, and believe it or not, each individual would have had their own changeable perspective, and machinations.
Same for the settlers.
but definetely the native Americans perspective should be taken into account, since it particularly have not been heard with respect, ever
That’s the story I’m looking for.
Where is the credit for the story? Would you note the sources for the information? It seems today that Thanksgiving is being overlooked for a gross misspelling of the history.
Good job. Great narrative.
It is interesting that the current racist 1619 fails to mention that when slaves arrived near Jamestown,
Pilgrims were arriving in Plymouth in 1620
While Jamestown eventually vanished, and slavery eventually abolished.... the pilgrim's Thanksgiving festival and principles of democracy still live on.
You skipped the part where they ended up in Holland one time and had to leave because they were afraid that their children will see themselves as "Dutch" instead of English.
And an important part at that!
Exactly. The Pilgrims were English Calvinist who fled to Holland in 1609 to avoid prosecution from the English church-state. They resided in Amsterdam for a short time. Within months they moved to what is now the city of Leiden and lived there for ten years before they boarded the Mayflower headed to the new world. The Mayflower Compact was a socialist experiment that failed in the first year. It was quickly scrapped for a system in which the land was divided amongst the surviving families after the first winter and each family was than allowed to keep and sell what each produced. The first "Thanksgiving" we celebrate today was a feast that Calvinist colony had, inviting the natives, to celebrate overcoming the failures of the Mayflower Compact.
Certainly the atrocities inflicted on indigenous peoples that happened as more boats from Europe arrived into the New World were terrible. But that is a completely separate story than the Thanksgiving story. Though history is certainly one giant story, it would be the equivalent of jumping right from the communist revolution in 1917 in Russia to the invasion of Ukraine in 2020 and 2022. I mean... a whole lot of things happened in between and even the leaders are different people. MUCH like the European settlement of the east coast in the 17th century.
I thought the puritans were escaping the anglican church or episcopalians, not catholics...... In fact, they thought the anglican church was TOO catholic. So they were protestants escaping protestantism.
they were escaping the oppression of the church. The catholic cult has always been and continues to be an evil cult. monopolizing on peoples fears, abusing children, money rackets like no other religious group, not teaching the Word of God, trying to play God by hearing confessions, and the list goes on.
England didn't have the Anglican church until the 1530s when the Pope wouldn't let Henry VIII get a divorce.
Thank you so much for wonderful presentation and explaining us the history why exactly Thanksgiving is celebrated.
Theres a real bad nasty history behind Thanksgiving
I'm pretty sure the Puritans stole from the graves of the native Americans. This version is not accurate
Praising God for his abundant blessings!
They didn't sign the mayflower compact because their claim to the land was dodgy. They signed it because half the people on board weren't pilgrims, they were secular and they had had fighting on board already and as soon as they got to land the two groups wanted to split. But the leader of the pilgrims kept them together and said they wouldn't survive if they separated. That's also where the problems with the Indians came from despite the pilgrims getting a bad rap for it.
You completely omitted their stay in Leiden before they even crossed the Atlantic. They did not leave England and directly set sail for the Americas. Nor were they colonists in the strict sense of the word once they reached present-day Massachusetts.
The speedwell pilgrim ship was a captured ship from The Spanish Armada of 1588. 00:42
His sarcasm is brutal 😂🤣
The first pilgrims were paid to come by the Jamestown and starved to death and resorted to cannibalism. 20 years later the Mayflower came
That’s the revisionist version.
Had the indigenous people knew what was to come...........
The Bible prophesied about it clear back in Genesis. Anyone who knew, read, and studied the Scriptures knew that the Europeans would come settle in the Americas.
Crikey, that was really interesting & really well done. Amazing. I’ve heard the story before even studied the period at school etc here in the uk. I live close to Southampton(a port rather than a harbour) & have visited Plymouth many times (still a beautiful place) and remember thinking.... fancy leaving these waters in September for the America’s. Love this download & god bless America & happy thanksgiving 🇺🇸
Excellent!
This isn't the first Thanksgiving. The aboriginals of America already were celebrating their Thanksgivings long before any foreigner came. They has 13 Thanksgivings that were celebrated every moon. The one that was celebrated around this time of year was the fall harvest thanksgiving done on the blue moon. This was never a foreigners idea first. But they take everything from us even our true identities. 😢
What is the Thanksgiving according the video ?
Tarea de inglés 👍👌
Like US NATIVES Say, YOUR STORY, NOT OURS
Real talk brother. Do you know if any recorded material that gives an unbiased view?
One day will be justice for the natives holocaust
Unfortunately There isn't🙁🙄
What is the real story then?
@@xenagirl2037 Same thing I’m trying to Figure out!
Someone obviously had good intentions in there heart to create this Holiday of Peace & Being Thankful & making it Major Holiday. If your really about Peace you wouldn't try to attack Thanksgiving Holiday.
Have you ever played that game where you an 10 others are in a circle one person speaks something into one's ear and when it gets back to you it's different ?
What color is Jesus Christ ?
Don't forget the Pequot Massacre of 1637, the real reason for Thanksgiving.
There are two different flags on the "Mayflower" in this video: the Union jack, (a.k.a. "the King's Colours," the Union Flag, etc.) and the other one is the national flag of Denmark (a white cross on a red background). The national flag of England is a red cross upon a white background. I had to bring this to your attention, and that of others watching! Good content, otherwise. (My family was among those who fled the reign of "Bloody Mary," fleeing to the Netherlands. When they saw their children losing their cultural identity and saw how they were becoming more "Dutch" . . . Seeing that Queen Mary had been replaced upon the throne by Queen Elizabeth 1, they decided to return "home" to England. Some continued on to make the crossing to the New World, but my ancestors chose to remain in England for a while - crossing to the U.S., via Montreal, Canada, in the early 1820's. Thanks for sharing the Real Story of Thanksgiving with us!
Really cool video! Thank you! Would you please also include a list of references so I can like and share as a verifiable authentic account?
Thanksgiving is meant to celebrate our exorbitant amount of blessings! Let us not take what we have for granted 🇺🇸
Wrong that is not what thanksgiving was made to celebrate, thats what you have been conditioned to believe you are celebrating so that you can spend all that money on the holiday when the energy is tied to what happened that brought about that thanksgiving. It was the massacre of the Piquot people that thanksgiving was a celebration of. You wanting to justify it with your own purpose doesnt change what is being fed by your energy.
@@azarelthecreator7098 The Pequot Massacre was a horrible thing but it happened six years later in Connecticut under Captain John Mason in the spring of 1627. While these two events may have connections I'm not aware of, I'm certainly no expert, we're talking about the first thanksgiving. Are you saying this is where the tradition comes from, celebrating a victory in a battle? Idk, but that's not what I celebrate at thanksgiving.
@@wooddogg8 We don't celebrate the first Thanksgiving, that's where you have been miss educated. Our yearly celebration of today came from the celeb action of the piquot massacre. They have taught the population lies to keep them celebrating these horrendous events as something they aren't.
@@wooddogg8 yes it's celebrating winning that battle with the indiginous people. They bragged about being able to smell the burning flesh of the people they burned alive. They were giving thanks for the new lands they were able to take and that they won the war they started with those people.
@@azarelthecreator7098 OK. But you can't tell people what they're celebrating. Even if the origins of the holiday go back to the massacre, what people celebrate today is based on family and gratitude and the story presented in this video and not the killing. Sadly, most people are unaware of that history anyway.
Really enjoyed this
Fascinating, thank you!😎😎😎😎
7:45 America was saved by a native on the quest for beer. They never teach that in school
Squanto
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand then the Pequot Massacre occurred.
So much for "friendship" with the Indians.
The U.S. Natives tell a VERY different story!
"...wiped out by 'Indian fever'" Are you kidding?! First time I've heard it called that. 6:14
It's a curious detail. The settlers didn't know what it was, and it seemed to only hit the local villages. So that's what they called it. Now we know it's likely any of the myriad of diseases the European settlers brought with them.
they were killed.
Very nicely done. Informative and entertaining.
I thought they first traveled to Holland and decided things were too liberal even though they had religious freedom?
Why leave that part out?
This was a while ago, but I suspect I cut it for time as it details the narrative and doesn't add anything to the story. They leave for Holland for a year, then come back sail from England again with no major changes in between. I meant to include a line about it, but sadly it must have been lost in the edit.
Actually, they wanted their kids to remain English, though some stayed in Holland and blended in.
I LOVE STUFF LIKE THIS
Interesting video. Amazing they survived.
Man, thank you so much for this video. I am so sick of everyone focusing on atrocities committed in the past, that they taint even the slightest good done by mankind. History has enough shameful things, so I do not see why people see fit to create such hateful views on the few moments that can be looked on proudly. This video was awesome man, and thanks for reminding me about Samoset- he was one of my favorite people in my history books as a kid.
I completely agree !!! Even the very word thanksgiving is beautiful in itself .
Thank you so much for the whole truth of that first Thanksgiving. I will use this when teaching my little grandson the story of our forefathers.
The real story of the 1st thanksgiving and not the B S there trying to sell now days
I still love 🦃 Thanksgiving, spending time with my family, thanking God for the food I eat, for what I have and for what I don't have. It's a shame the whining victims need to spread the negativity...
We know John Smith was not a passenger on the Mayflower.
My Ancestor, William Brewster, was the Chaplain of the Mayflower, so I thoroughly enjoyed this account of the first Thanksgiving. Again it seems the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Hi Cousin, I'm direct descendant as well, My best friend Mullens has china from the Mayflower! Happy Thanksgiving
Very well done video! Thank you for your work!
On a side note though, why does it seem like every Thanksgiving explanation video always starts out with the cliche, "You might think the first Thanksgiving was when Pilgrims and Natives came together peacefully to celebrate the Harvest, but that's wrong!," despite by itself although simplified, isn't wrong at all.
The Church of England was not the Catholic Church.
He was saying like. Kings James and Charles, especially through Archbishop Laud, were moving Reformation backwards, hence his comments. To them, the church was too much an instrument of the leaders of the state.
Easy, clear and straight to the point. Thanks for this great story.
How can we get people to believe this? I know! Say that the native American man promptly asks for a beer!
He had lived in England. People generally drank beer or light wine, then.
Elizabeth Warrens great great great great great great great grandfathers Indian uncle’s roommate brought the cranberry sauce 😂
Well done 👍🏻
is good to see that despite not being perfect there were some peace
Great Explanation. Really immersed me in the environment of the time
Jesus brought the Pilgrims to America as the new promise land since Israel was long gone in 1620. They brought the English translation of the ancient scriptures KJV Bible. The Pilgrims made arrangements with merchants, explorers and map makers from Europe using European money, to help them establish the new land. The first Thanksgiving was celebrating the first harvest in the new land and they were friends with the Indians on that day. The Indian wars didn't start until the British Navy arrived, chasing the defectors, convinced the Indians to kill the settlers under false pretenses. We honor the pilgrims who discovered America, for many reasons including the fact that Columbus when he arrived, didn't know where he was. It was Americo Vespucio who discovered the Continent, and it was named after him.
And then came King Philips war.
nice and largely accurate you missed the slaughter of the natives by the puritans and the pilgrims went to Holland first. also yes Squanto was taken captive as a slave but those that took him and those like him, were the ones that brought the plaque that killed off the people as i said ypu werr thorough but omitted necessary detail where honestey is necessary.
Slaughter? Three were wounded when searching for Corbitant, the man who kidnapped Squanto. Hence the knock a few heads together. Later, after the events of this video, there is a full blown war called Prince Phillips War. But as this video focuses on the first Thanksgiving it's outside our purview. As for Holland, I begin the story on the docks because that part confuses the narrative. They're English. They left from England. It was a short stay. Nothing happened there. If this were a longer video I could have gone into that.
I find your user name quite ironic when viewed alongside this statement. We all make exceptions to our own codes, so I'm not implying you are any different than others.
@@codybonds We live in such Divisive Times, have you considered making a video to address this persons comments and the misconceptions of these events? You should put together another video covering the topic of the initial set up following these events and where the ideas and misconceptions of this era in history are wrong or right. Some think the natives were utterly shit on. Other think the pilgrims were saints. Clearly neither of these are true. Everyone has an ancestor that was an asshole, someway somehow.
Excellent explanation of Thanksgiving 👍
Pequot Museum & research center has an active twitter presence. They celebrate Thanksgiving annually.
Nicely done, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Nice little story but where do you take the information from? I can tell a story too without historical data.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)
@@codybonds NOT TRUSTWORTHY!!! You should take a course in Research Methods, sir.
@@yishislassieswaiting4748 The sources are listed at the bottom of the page. And you'll find Wikipedia has rankings as high as most Encyclopedias now.
And then the pilgrims turned on the Natives that taught them all this & murdered them.
No. That all came later with different people involved.
lol @janieortiz1077. you’re a mo mo.
Sounds pretty.
AND THAT IS WHY IT'S CALLED HIS-STORY. It all depends on who is telling the story.
Story should be told over and over. “Setting aside your differences and giving thanks” but, that doesn’t happen these days.
The Native Indians tells a difference version.
So the pilgrims didn’t steal the land?
There's some holes in this story and I know some members of the Wampanoag Tribes and they don't see this narrative accurately.
Nice Fairy tale...
Not fairy tale
It wasn’t too bad until the very end where he undid all the truths with the fantasy of a peaceful 3 day feast.
Ya nice story told from a settler perspective
good one thanks
having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith
The human race back then celebrated Thanksgiving and dealt with an epidemic the human race now celebrates Thanksgiving and dealing with an epidemic the human race sure has come a long way baby
What peace
Between the Pilgrims and the Massasoit
Sigh. Well. This is one of the better versions. Fish and seafood were absurdly abundant as were all kinds of edible birds. Berries were everywhere. The Indians did bring 5 Deer after realizing there wasn’t enough food to feed all the men they unexpectedly brought. No sugar was left in 1620, so they didn’t have cranberry sauce as we do until some years later.
Indians were Stone Age people who routinely wiped out other tribes for land which would be conquered and populated and then fought over again just as every type of human in every country has since Homo Sapiens began. However we came with guns and metal knives and cooking pots, all kinds of things they wanted. We also brought horses and plows. Endless truces or alliances formed over the past 400 years which shifted and both sides broke trust. We brought Civilization to the area we call the US as was always going to happen. No one would learn about bacteria and diseases for hundreds of years. We did not arrive intending genocide or treachery. There were Protestant Sailors, Pilgrims and Puritans. As deals were made and villages set up both Europeans and Indians learned from each other. But frankly they had very little to teach us.
Roger Williams would soon go south to Providence and buy land there. He wrote the peace treaty that held 70 years. He wrote the 1st book translation of Native Algonquin to English in 1643. He welcomes Jewish People. French Catholics, All Religions were welcome in Rhode Island. The Mayflower would make 4 trips and within 10 years the Winthrop Fleet arrived with farm animals, cloth, books, seeds, tools, Blacksmiths, things not yet available. Native tribes never invented the wheel, nor metals, nor any ability to sail, no writing. No architecture, no farming methods like crop rotation. Whether it be Greece, Egypt, China, South American Incas, most humans had evolved and we brought modernity that was practically Magic to Massachusetts. They never learned to make beer or nevermind Gin or Whiskey or Brandy. The US was in no way Disease free prior to 1620, in fact possibly as many as 90% of New England natives had died prior to us landing, leaving little problem starting to build houses and villages on great bays along the ocean. Slavery existed in every culture in every country in every century and Native Tribes not only took slaves, they tortured and killed with slow savage methods in some cases. Whites never invented Slavery. Indians in fighting us would take captives as slaves or to be ransomed. History of Humans is brutal, endlessly complex and no generalization does any situation justice. I will make one: People everywhere are generally good and do the best they can with what they know and with the circumstances in the moment. In 1620 there was no malice of forethought in the Mayflower. Deals were made, negotiations took place hundreds of times over that men shook on and considered adequate on both sides. As things changed, so too did agreements and alliances. No person can withstand 2023 retroactive “Purity” tests of today’s norms. Whether you lived in an African country in 1620 or Arab, India or Asia, North or South America land and property have been fought over all of human History. Families who moved here had no bloodlust to fight Natives. They wanted a chance to live without an English Officer coming to their door and executing them. Civilization was coming, be it English citizens, Spain, Portugal, France, the Dutch. Had the Mayflower group all died. More Europeans were going to arrive and did every year going forward to today. This was inevitable. Thanksgiving was to thank God. In most American homes it still is a day to be thankful and count our Blessings and the abundance we enjoy with those we love most.
Jesus loves you
I'm sorry but I personally know some of this is inaccurate.
they where a discriminatory group when it comes to other religions because of this they where kicked out of England and went to the Netherlands because as they where the only country that will accept them, then eventually they chose to leave the Netherlands because they thought they were too weird
also they're real name was separatists do you see why countries didn't like them
LOL you make a good conspiracy theory claim. Is any group perfect? They just wanted freedom of religion and peace.
@@DS-md7jn dude it's real history
@@chrislad24 the problem is your so-called history and anyone else who wants to demonize a group of people and say they were discriminatory and stereotype a group of people that just want freedom of religion and to be left alone.
@@DS-md7jn LOL you really really need to look into them, "people that just want freedom of religion and to be left alone" they attacked people for there religion and would not leave them alone.
@@chrislad24 come on 😄, don't be another talking head spinning the facts.
This is the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth but the actual first Thanksgiving occurred in Virginia 1619.
I visited Jamestown, Virginia and they claimed Thanksgiving in 1610
@@letterbox203 End of the starving times: May 23, 1610 marked by the arrival of ships Deliverance and Patience. I would argue that this event is one reason why thanksgiving is celebrated. 1619 was the first celebration along the James River there were 55 people present and it lasted 10-15 minutes.
@@ChoppedCheese2 Well then Oct 1621 was their first Thanksgiving for thei harvest after that deadly winter the previous year
but not "the first" as I originally stated.
Actually the 1st known Thanksgiving happen in 1541 at Palo Duro Caynon Texas on May 29 for the army accompanying Spanish conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado.
Maybe I share the video frost thanksgiving
Great video. Love the Midieval game music :)
Very well done 👍🏻
I will share this with my students.
Well... this is one side of the story. But unfortunately this story has so many unverified facts, I actually started thinking I was watching some sort of Late night TV comedy sketch. SMH
THE TRUTH at last!!!
@Sherryl Gross The pilgrims didn't do that.
Yes sir 555
These Americans!?! Thanksgiving!?! for marginalizing the true owners of the land!?!
The truth will always outlive the lies about our countries birth . Thanksgiving is all about Giving thanks for all that God has done .
This was an amazing video dude.
It's obviously better than England.
Thanks, this is the most truthful telling of Thanksgiving I've ever heard. Happy Thanksgiving.
Beautiful!!!
love the video :)
Good Job with this
Is this for real?! Coming from Indian/English/ French Heritage. This is NOT What we were taught in our house and what was spoken of passed down on the timeline.
My family bloodline comes from love and just because their was extremists in each race, doesnt mean that ALL french/indian or Indian/British were in that mindset. This is extremely biased. Like a pendulum it depends on what story or side you want to victimize or shine a spotlight on. I choose Love stories and the actual beauty that was formed between the two Heritages that created the love and light between the two races....
I always try and encourage people to do a bit of digging on Wikipedia to verify what they've seen. Things of course go very poorly after, but it didn't start that way.
@@codybonds all i know is what has been passed down to me from Generation to Generation. I am proof there was love and unity. Or many wouldnt have the lineage ancestral background. Most wanted peace and new world. Of course, there is always Extremists, shunning the two for procreating. And, of course, you have group of extremists wanting total domination over the opposition. All i can say is love won. We have beautiful hybrids from the races and we celebrate Thanksgiving to remember that. It was uncharted lands for the pilgrims, peaceful, unifying Indians. Showerings the pilgrims with food and how to forage the lands. I know my Ancestors did or that is the story passed down. In any case, war unfolded. But, love and unity won the Battle or we wouldnt have History and we wouldnt have Mixed Races....
Unfortunately it is not the full story nor complete truth, as has better been described in recent years and hence why there continues to be a day of mourning for descendants of the first peoples. Do some googling. It is uncomfortable, especially since we all grew up with a certain angle presented in school., but truth is truth, not our white settler or Bradford version of it.
Isn't the story 20 years after settled
Comanches were not present during the first Thanksgiving,. If so the pilgrims would have been the dinner,
If you put this video out in Nov 2021, you'd have been cancelled and run out of town. Thank you for making this video. I hope it stays up.