Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of First Thanksgiving

Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of First Thanksgiving
(AP Photo/David Goldman)
This year will be the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Mass., but there's little national conversation about it. Is Thanksgiving now an embarrassment? The Washington Post published a recent article headlined: "This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later." What follows is a long, mournful reflection on how disastrous the first Thanksgiving was for the Wampanoag Nation, descendants of the original tribe who greeted the Pilgrims and joined the English for that momentous meal.
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