Were the Mayans at the First Thanksgiving?

Yes, you read that right! Usually we associate the Mayan peoples with South America, so what connection could they possibly have with the events after the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts? It’s an intriguing question—and one that you can only answer if you start with the biblical timescale of thousands of years of human history and apply it to human genetics.

And that’s exactly the kind of research that biologist Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson is doing! Now, before he answers the question of Mayan participation in the Thanksgiving feast, watch this video for the backstory of the Native peoples you learned about in school who were at the first Thanksgiving.

And now that you have that backstory in place, let’s find out . . . were the Mayans at the first Thanksgiving?

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This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.