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Send your students back in time to the first Thanksgiving to learn about the Native American role in the origins of the modern holiday.

Make copies of the reproducible on page 79 of the November/December issue of Instructor magazine, or have students use a blank sheet of paper to complete the activity on the Kids' Page.

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1. Squanto helped negotiate a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag; he taught the Pilgrims how to farm in the area, and where to find fish so that they would not starve.

2. Answers will vary. Food served at the first Thanksgiving includes: wild turkey, goose, duck, cod, eel, venison, Indian corn, pumpkin, peas, beans, carrots, and plums. Not on the menu were ham, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, and cranberry sauce.

3. No, it was a traditional English harvest celebration.

4. Wampanoag Indians; Wam-pa-NO-ag. They lived in round-roofed houses called wigwams.

5. Corn was used in making masks, moccasins, sleeping mats, baskets, cornhusk dolls, fuel, and rattles.

6. No. Women typically dressed in red, earthy green, brown, blue, violet, and gray, while men wore white, beige, black, earthy green, and brown.

7. Relations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag were friendly.