56 years before the Pilgrims, the Spanish celebrated thanksgiving

9:35am PST - November 18th, 2021    history of thanksgiving - Axios

The U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving to commemorate the 1621 feast between 91 Wampanoag members and 53 Pilgrims in present-day Massachusetts. But there were other similar feasts years before the Pilgrims landed, between early Spanish settlers and Indigenous peopl…