In the year of 1621 the plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving that has been celebrated. It wasn’t until 1863, that in the middle of the civil war that president Abraham Lincoln claimed that thanksgiving is a national holiday held each November. visit from an Abenaki Indian who greeted them in English.he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Patuxet tribe Squanto taught the Pilgrims, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans.
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