Thanksgiving, Olé: Colonial Spain and the First Thanksgiving

                                                       

Could there be anything more "all-American" than our Thanksgiving Day?  Pilgrims and Indians joining hands in a feast that heralded a new nation.  Turns out that, as is so often the case with history, we need to think again.  Without the roundabout intervention of Colonial Spain, there might never have been a Thanksgiving Day, at all.
Please click the link to see what this is all about.
https://colonialmexicoinsideandout.blogspot.com/2015/12/colonial-spain-and-first-thanksgiving.html

Rethinking Thanksgiving

                                               

On November 24 of this year millions of people in the US will sit down to the feast of Thanksgiving.  Seemingly there is nothing more all- American than this holiday which has its roots in the Pilgrims' harvest celebration.   Yet, we owe a debt  to Colonial Mexico for this celebration and for the Pilgrims' very survival in their new land.

I wrote about this topic last year, so if you missed it and would like to learn about Colonial Mexico's very serendipitous role in the first Thanksgiving, please click on this link:   http://colonialmexicoinsideandout.blogspot.com/2015/12/colonial-spain-and-first-thanksgiving.html

Happy Thanksgiving!