Travel back in time to Plymouth Rock on-line
Send your students back in time to the first Thanksgiving to learn about the Native American role in the origins of the modern holiday. See the reproducible on the next page.
Answers:
1. Squanto helped negotiate a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag; he taught the Pilgrims how to farm in the area, and where to find fish so that they would not starve.
2. No, it was a traditional English harvest celebration.