Giving thanks is a longstanding and central tradition among Indigenous peoples that is still practiced today. The “First Thanksgiving” is often portrayed as a friendly harvest festival where Pilgrims and generic, nameless “Indians” came together to eat and give thanks. The whole history is more complex and includes Wampanoag voices and perspectives largely absent from this narrative. In reality, the assembly of the Wampanoag Peoples and the English settlers in 1621 had much more to do with polit