Squanto helped the Pilgrims by showing them how to grow crops, such as corn, and how to fish. Squanto had been captured and forced into enslavement in England, and later self-liberated and returned to the New World. The survivors were fortunate to meet Tisquantum, better known as Squanto, a member of the Paxutet band of the Wampanoag Confederation who spoke English. Nearly half of the Pilgrims who arrived in the area of Massachusetts in 1620 died before the first spring. Thanksgiving is generally accepted to have initially commemorated the survival of the Pilgrims after a brutal winter in the New World in 1621. Other countries, such as Germany, Canada, Liberia, and the Netherlands, celebrate their own Thanksgiving days throughout the year. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November each year in the United States.
Thanksgiving is, as the name suggests, a holiday for giving thanks.
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