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Old Oct 14, 2013, 01:23 PM
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Thanksgiving was originally a celebration for the successful cultivation and harvest of crops at the end of the summer growing season. Especially when the native people helped the new European settlers learn to grow the local crops in the new land. The first settlers would not have survived throughout the winter was it not for the help of the natives of North America at first. Now, it is celebrated annually as a national holiday.
Thanks for this!
Anika.