So by 1620, the Wampanoag, as Peters describes, were in a “difficult spot,” shaped by years of volatile contact with Europeans, slavery, regional threats to their power and a mysterious, devastating illness.
The congregation of Puritans within the Pilgrims did break off from the Church of England for religious reasons, but that brought them to Holland, where they were free to practice their religion. After a decade of struggling to find jobs and fearing the Dutch influence on their children, the congregants sought a charter from The London Company to start a colony in America, although it was originally granted for land around the mouth of the Hudson River.
Massasoit has gone through a bit of a rebrand in the ensuing centuries to be painted as the “protector and preserver” of the Pilgrims — as it says on the statue dedicated to him overlooking Plymouth Rock. But his decision to allow the Pilgrims to stay at Patuxet and eventually provide them aid after they were driven off the Cape, Peters said, had less to do with a sense of dutiful benevolence and more to do with a careful weighing of circumstances and outcomes.
“We needed a friend,” Peters said. “We needed an ally. That would have been a really difficult decision for them to make.”As these debates were happening among the Wampanoag, the Pilgrims, most of whom were still living on the cramped and creaking Mayflower, struggled to survive the winter. Half of them died of illness, cold, starvation or a combination of the three.
Several months later, after receiving help and protection from the Wampanoag, the Pilgrims held the harvest feast that would form the crux of the Thanksgiving myth centuries later. Wampanoag members were not even invited, but they showed up. A group of about 100 men and Massasoit came not to celebrate but, according to Peters, mostly as a reminder that they controlled the land the Pilgrims were staying on and they vastly outnumbered their new European neighbors.
The head of another of Massasoit’s sons, Metacomet, better known as King Philip, was mounted on a pike outside Plymouth Colony as a warning, and the descendants of Massasoit, the Pilgrims’ great “protector and preserver,” were captured and sold into slavery in the West Indies.
Stop the holiday assaults! The authors of this article seem to miss the point and intent of Thanksgiving: giving thanks for what you have and fellowship. It is not about the wrongs of the past. People from all nations/cultures celebrate a thanksgiving in some form or fashion.
Oh FFS. Go away already. Bunch of sissies.
Why be a Karen and try to ruin Thanksgiving? It doesn’t represent that now. It represents eating food, bickering with family and shopping. Let’s not kid ourselves.
JFC I swear liberal oriented people are just miserable human beings, you’d rather focus on the negative. America was never perfect, it’s promise lies in our citizens ability to look ahead, and work towards a more equal future. It always has, and that is why we celebrate.
Enough with this garbage.
Or how most “African Americans” are not African at all and had been here. And how white people stole there land and change there history
The real stories are out, just that some chose not to believe them.
Absolutely! Let’s talk about what the white man did to the native American Indian.😢💔😡
Yes, I would love to know more and first nations people have the right to tell their stories.
Erasing history is such a precarious exercise
I'm quite sure that the native Americans weren't happy with outsiders invading their land and I'm also quite sure that conflict ensued obviously spreading across the entire country.
are we going to need a shot of Wild Turkey?
Let’s also tell the real story of Christmas.
Nightwolf has been telling the truth about Thanksgiving every year year for years on WPFW-FM in DC.
To the victor belong the spoils.
Whose “truth” are you going to tell?
No holiday holds up historically
END Disparities for African-Americans(AA) White Americans,even recent White immigrants enjoy generational privileges of slavery,civil war etc.;access,resources/opportunities yet,FROWN on earned empowerment of AA Who does that-RACIST! END IT-Reparations!
interviewed people from 1620. Impressive.
Not every confederate was a slave owner. In fact, most confederates where the ones who fought to end slavery! Re-check your history.
Let's just re-write history! NOT!!! WTF?
Yes.
IAmSophiaNelson Just like most of history, it’s both a tragic and wonderful story. It depends on the agenda of the history teller as to which way the story is told. I imagine that because we’re in a “European settlers and their descendants were evil” moment, it’s going to be the former.
I will design an elegant intro or outro
Yet Andrew Jackson, Trumps fave president, and whose statute was protected by the secret service from protesters, led the Trail of Tears against native Americans. And owned slaves. U can't make this stuff up!
Let’s change EVERYTHING
Why not worry about what is taking place on tribal land now? Rates of alcoholism, meth use, opioid use, child sex trafficking and unemployment are ravaging these lands
Can we wait until next year? I think I know the story — and I think we’re too overwhelmed to deal with it right now.
Man, the propaganda just doe not stop does it? Do you little babies still learn world history? You do know since the beginning of time, tribe has conquered tribe? This is natural. People are not inherently “racist”. We are tribal and its a survival mechanism.
Might as well ruin that too
Yes but make sure you tell the full story, how Indians had slaves before Columbus. How they refused to give up black slaves after the civil war. How they weren't peaceful at all. Maybe conquered people need to play the part.
If you continue with the race baiting you will continue to divide the nation. The events of the near future will be the fault of CorruptMedia refusing to actually inform the country.
_Gromflomite_ In order to do that, we need a whole new selection of picture books to begin introducing the ideas to children as they begin their educational journey through schools, and teachers may want to brace for the blow back from some parents.
Tell it and tell it loud and proud. We as Americans now having to teach our children at home deserve for our children to know the truth and have the world back us up. SupportParentsTeaching
This is so true! Very sad😔
Yes it is...it’s time to start being honest on all fronts. ALL
Native Americans have been erased from white American history. Time for reparations.
wow
Real heroes arise
Most of us already know. You can count the magas out.
Yes. Yes it is.
What’s the real story?
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