Wampanoag people
The UAINE also questions why the "First Thanksgiving" is not associated with Virginia, the first colony to hold such a celebration. They argue that the national myth of Thanksgiving cannot be built around the first harvest celebration because in doing so, we disregard the terrible circumstances that prevailed in the colony: settlers turning to cannibalism to survive. The UAINE argues that the only true element of the Thanksgiving story is that the Pilgrims would not have survived their first years in New England without the aid of the Wampanoag people or their already existing crops.