I do not want to detract from those other important articles in this thread, but I was wondering about something about Thanksgiving I heard just a little while ago. I had a visitor at my home today, a relative from Manila who is visiting her family home in the city I live in. She is taking up world history and proposes to be a future teacher (doctorate degree) of history at a local university. We got into discussing the "real Thanksgiving" back in America; the first one. She said there are books written on this subject, American history, to be exact, that she has in the University of the Philippines library. I do not have much book material on this subject, but I will do Internet research later when I get my project over with. She said that the very first Thanksgiving, and those months leading up to it, and those years beyond it, were sparked with turmoil, death, fighting, disorders and other unrests between the new-coming Pilgrims and the indigenous Indians of the time, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. We already know about Roanoke, Virginia episodes. In fact, she said, during that first Thanksgiving food-fest, there were drunkenness, fighting, a few Indians were killed, and a few Pilgrims were injured that day. The Indians blamed the Pilgrims on their own losses of tribal and family members, as the Pilgrims brought with them, diseases the Indians never had previously to the 'landing' at Plymouth Rock. Even the Pilgrims blamed the Indians on the losses of their own, during this time. Until matters straightened out, some years thereafter, the very first Thanksgiving was a complete roustabout, it is said. Is this really true?