Thanksgiving Primary Sourse

One of my design teachers yesterday told us that he had heard that they did not actually eat turkey for the first thanksgiving and it was more likely that they had lobster.. I'm not really sure if i believe it, but it is plausible. So, i decided to do some research..
First of all, wild turkeys can be found pretty much all over eastern America. I don't have a picture showing what the turkey situation was back then.. but the first thanksgiving took place in New England which is well inside turkey territory.

The only written account from the first "thanksgiving" in America is written by Edward Winslow in 1621. In Edward Winslow's document he writes, "the foure in one day killed as much fowle, as with a little helpe beside, served the Company almost a weeke"... "and the went out and killed five Deere, which the brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governour and upon the Captaine, and others."
so.. yes... they had fowl and yes.. the had deer.
another rumour is that they aren't sure if Indians actually attend this "first thanksgiving" in fact, the Wampanoag did attend along with the colonists.

So the results are so:
they are unsure if there was turkey or not. but they did eat some sort of fowl.. and deer. no accounts of the eating lobster though.




sources: http://plimoth.org/education/olc/source.html