Most of what you've heard about Thanksgiving as a kid was inaccurate, but that's probably because you were also too young to learn the truth about what really went down. As you probably now know, Thanksgiving was more than just an Autumn harvest between the colonists and Wampanoag Indians.
When more settlers arrived in the New World, they brought a plague with them, which wiped out more than half of the native population. This sparked a fight for land and a rough relationship between both parties. Though there was a three-day feast, it's still not clear whether the Wampanoags were invited or if they crashed. There are several versions and theories of the truth about Thanksgiving, but none of them are a nice tale.
