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No, it doesn't. [b]A primary documents which descibed A feast [/b]was dug up in order to establish the holiday. The feast was not a first anything - it was just a feast, and someone happened to mention it in writing, so it was used, many years after the fact, to create the myth of the "first" thanksgiving. In reality, the fall feast was something people were celebrating annually before anyone had heard of the pilgims - it was a harvest holiday and holdover from many ancient religions. The first thanksgiving myth was just a way to officially appropriate the holiday for propaganda purposes. [/quote]

You really don't  make your point: There was a feast of Thanksgiving.  It was the first one in the New World by Europeans.

What do you want -a statement by the Pilgrims that they are establishing a national holiday for a nation that did not then exist?  
Thanksgiving is in honor of that first "feast".  It was a feast of thanks.  Native Americans were included.  What negates any of this?  It is not a myth.

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