Per the first-hand account of Edward Winslow, governor of the Plymouth colony, the Pilgrims “entertained and feasted” with the Indians for three days because “by the goodness of God, we are so far from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.” Hence, when Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday, he called for Americans “to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November” as a “day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” Axios has reported that the original Thanksgiving feast between the Pilgrims and Native Americans never happened, but this claim is based on an uncorroborated assertion made by one person 400 years after the events in question.