Rethinking Thanksgiving with Perry Ground

Program at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York George Gustav Heye Center

Thursday, Nov. 21 and Friday, Nov. 22

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; program repeats every 30 minutes

Saturday, Nov. 23

10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; program repeats every 30 minutes

Rotunda

Join Perry Ground (Onondaga, Turtle Clan) for an engaging and informative workshop and storytelling session about the history of this very misunderstood holiday. Based on the only primary source documents that chronicle the “First Thanksgiving” and using a quiz-style format, visitors will learn accurate and culturally appropriate information about the English settlers at Plymouth and the Wampanoag, the Native people who inhabited that area, and learn about how this story became the holiday we know today.