The story of Thanksgiving is that the Pilgrims invited the Native Americans to celebrate and they all sat together to relish in the delicious food as part of these celebrations.
The idea behind Thanksgiving is that people from all races come down to have a meal together and show their gratefulness for all that is good in their lives.
However, there is more to Thanksgiving than just the Pilgrims story, which is embedded into the national consciousness for so many centuries.
Reality is that when the Native Indians heard gunshot sounds, they thought that the colonists were preparing for war.
They informed their chief Massasoit about it.
Massasoit returned with 90 men and no women or children to examine the situation and what he found was that there was a party going on and not a preparation for war.
Seeing this, he went back and brought with him five deer and lots of turkeys.
It has been stated that it was the Pilgrims who offered food, but in fact, it was really the other way around.
The Native Indians seeing that the Colonists have little food, brought more food and joined in the celebrations.
However, in American movies this aspect of Thanksgiving is not really brought out.
In fact, there are not many full length films that reflect about Thanksgiving.
There have been films that have tried to tell the real story.
The earliest ones were Broken Arrow (1950), and Cimarron (1960), where the original story of Thanksgiving was brought out in a subtle manner.
Later films such as Little Big Man (1970) and Dances with Wolves (1990) reinstated the factor in a better manner, but still most movies do not fully concentrate on the original story behind Thanksgiving.
It is really great to celebrate Thanksgiving as we have always done, but shouldn't we be giving more thought to the true situation behind it?