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Thanksgiving Is a year-round practice of giving thanks

Aquinnah Wampanoags on the island of Martha's Vineyard turn their attention to gathering wild cranberries during Cranberry Thanksgiving.

When the Pilgrims sat down to what some regard as the first Thanksgiving four hundred years ago in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, they hardly had the market cornered on giving thanks. For local Wampanoags, and Indigenous people throughout North America, gathering to give thanks was already a familiar custom, taking place not just annually, but thirteen times throughout the

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