wampanoag

The Wampanoag leader Massasoit also gave food to the colonists when supplies brought from England proved insufficient.

And it's simply a fact that the Wampanoag and other tribes of the Eastern U.

Odds are good they knew (thanksgiving is literally foundational american history, but the Wampanoag were near ended by the end of the century).

Most of Massachusetts was once inhabited by the Wampanoag tribe.

Apparently, the Wampanoag had suffered from an epidemic, now suspected to have been smallpox, in the years prior to the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620.

However, other accounts suggest that the dinner was celebrated as an alliance between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag who were at war with other tribes such as the Narragansett.

They would use it as a hunting tool, and quickly depopulated the entire island of all large flora and fauna, leaving the Wampanoag to find subsistence only in the shores thereafter.

For all that hot air, Simon doesn't mention what parallel one might draw from the death of King Phillip, who was shot by another Wampanoag in the pay of Ben Church.

When I had opportunity to visit a demonstration farm run by some Wampanoag folks, they commented that the method (once established) really cut down on weeding and maintenance (although with weeds of European origin, more weeding is needed in the present day than 500 years ago).

> agriculture is the essential difference between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples Isn't part of the history of Plymouth that the Mayflower pilgrims had no idea how to farm and were woefully unprepared and thus on the verge of starving, but the indigenous Wampanoag people helped them learn how to do it and survive?