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4.They started to starve, but the American Indians in the area shared their food and soon taught the Pilgrims how to hunt American animals like the wild turkey and how to grow American crops like Indian-corn (maize) and pumpkins.
5.The Wampanoag , a group of Native people who had befriended the pilgrims,attended this Thanksgiving celebration.They brought gifts of corn, pumpkin and venison.When European settlers first arrived in the New World, the winter were long and bitter.Their survival depended upon the friendship of Native people.The newcomers learned how to frow hardly vegetables,gather wild rice,collect berries and prepare maple syrup.Early Thanksgiving feaasts included these foods and meats such as wild turkey, goose,venison and beaver tails!
