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English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people. The “first Thanksgiving,” as a lot of folks understand it, was in 1621 between the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag* tribe in present-day Massachusetts. ... Even then, the alliance really only existed because the Wampanoag people were ravaged by diseases brought by European colonizers in the years prior. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God. an expression of thanks,
