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The Pilgrims and Wampanoag shared a harvest feast, but it didn't happen the way you were likely taught in school.
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Over four centuries ago, the Pilgrims planted the roots of what would ultimately become the constitutional republic of the United States of America.
That's when "the newly arrived Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians gathered at Plymouth for an autumn harvest feast, an event regarded as America’s 'first Thanksgiving,'" the History Channel reports.