No record of the menu of that first harvest celebration exists. It is possible there was turkey available but more likely they had Grouse, duck, goose and swan. They would also have possibly had game meats like venison, rabbit and squirrel. Also, they most likely would have had seafood like cod and herring.
See the link below that has some information on what they may have had available for the meal.
The Pilgrims did not kill the Indians on the first Thanksgiving, They celebrated with the Indians the great harvest that was provided. The feast lasted for 3 days and the Indians out numbered the Pilgrams. There were 90 Indians in all. It was a party with lots of food and games that all had played together. The Indians teaching the whites the new games and the whites teaching the Indians new games.
The REAL answer:
Because the Puritans believed anyone who did not believe the same as they did needed to be "Purified" and they needed to "purify" the lands ect ect so.. because the Native Americans would not conform to the same beliefs they were deemed "savage heathens" and either enslaved or slaughtered. (strong were enslaved and often shipped back to Britain, weak, women, and children were murdered). The Puritans declared a day of "thanksgiving" after every massacre (tribe by tribe) until George Washington declared that we should only set aside 1 day a year for Thanksgiving...and then Lincoln declared it a national holiday and the rest is history.
That's why.
The only items that were recorded as having been eaten at the first Thanksgiving were fowl and venison. So the Pilgrims wouldn't have eaten ham. Neither would they have eaten jellied cranberries. They instead would have eaten any berries and fruits fresh. Nor would they have eaten mashed potatoes. Potatoes were a new food to them. Due to their European background, they would have been reluctant to eat the roots of a vegetable. At the time, vegetable roots were considered possible sources of indigestion and poisoning. And they wouldn't have eaten pumpkin pie with ice cream. Ice cream wasn't a known, popular dessert at that time. In fact, the Pilgrims wouldn't have had the means with which to make the dessert.
There wasnt any pumpkin crops grown there yet.
It is known that fowl was eaten at the first Thanksgiving. It may have been turkey or some other type of fowl.
The didn't have potatoes because the Native Americans hadn't planted them.
Yes they did because the crops weren't enough to eat
I personally did not kill the indians so don't blame me, but when the pilgrims came to America the brought diseases that killes of the indians, also the indians could not fight back against the new settlers weapons.
When katuka hun shot the great boar of the west & killed the mobikis w/ his fist, then showed columbus his bloody fist & saved all humanity when the indians faught the pilgrims & the pilgrims won using guns
first used by indians to kill there meat such as bear fish deeer exc.
For Thanksgiving or sandwhiches
aproximently 53 survived to celebrate "thanksgiving". that is not what they called it then though. and many people celebrate thanksgiving with turkey now a days but that was not what had happened. wild turkeys were often way to hard tocatch so they ate a lot of deer meet and fish but they did have a coiple of turkeys.turkey was not their min dish because they couldn't kill them. so yes there was not a lot of people to celebrate this harvest time because there was a lot of disease and things of that nature that had killed off most of the pilgrims. so there was aproximently53 survivers!
It is that Indians are stupid Muslims rule them and Pakistan will kill all those indians
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You shouldn't kill animals. Buy them instead, don't shoot them.
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First tukeys are abused and are curly beaten. Second they can carry disease that can kill human beings. So if your eating turkey on thanksgiving you supporting abusment and putting you life at risk
They kill deer and sheep and wild animals.