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This Tribe Helped the Pilgrims Survive for Their First Thanksgiving. They Still Regret It.
Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621.
by
Dana Hedgpeth
via
Retropolis
on
November 4, 2021
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
by
Philip J. Deloria
via
The New Yorker
on
November 18, 2019
Which Thanksgiving?
The forgotten history of Thanksgiving.
by
Karl Jacoby
via
Los Angeles Times
on
November 26, 2008
Squanto: A Native Odyssey
A new biography tells a far more complex, nuanced, and, frankly, interesting historical episode than that depicted in the typical grade-school pageant.
by
Lincoln Paine
via
A Sea Of Words
on
March 4, 2025
Appetite for Destruction
Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation. Colonists were too hungry to notice.
by
Carla Cevasco
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
July 27, 2022
We Have Always Been Global: Tribal Nations in the Democratic Slide
In the 19th century, Native American nations were early pioneers in constitutional democracy.
by
Noah Ramage
via
Perspectives on History
on
June 21, 2022
How to Tell the Thanksgiving Story on Its 400th Anniversary
Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.
by
David Kindy
via
Smithsonian
on
November 23, 2021
The First Thanksgiving is a Key Chapter in America's Origin Story
What happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more.
by
Peter C. Mancall
via
The Conversation
on
November 22, 2021
Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies
The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.
by
Tiya Miles
via
The Atlantic
on
August 30, 2021
A History of the Pilgrims That Neither Idolizes Nor Demonizes Them
Historian John Turner tells the story of Plymouth Colony with nuance and care.
by
Grant Wacker
via
The Christian Century
on
January 14, 2021
The Complicated Legacy of the Pilgrims is Finally Coming to Light After 400 Years
Descendants of the Pilgrims have highlighted their ancestors’ role in the country’s founding. But their sanitized version of events is only now starting to be told in full.
by
Peter C. Mancall
via
The Conversation
on
September 4, 2020
The Way American Kids Are Learning About the 'First Thanksgiving' Is Changing
"I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of misconceptions."
by
Olivia B. Waxman
via
TIME
on
November 21, 2019
The DNA Industry and the Disappearing Indian
DNA, race, and native rights.
by
Aviva Chomsky
via
Tom Dispatch
on
November 29, 2018
A Brief History of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.
by
Rachel B. Herrmann
via
History Extra
on
November 21, 2018
The Greatest Native American Intellectual You’ve Never Heard Of
The short life and long legacy of the 19th-century reformer William Apess.
by
Phillip F. Gura
via
What It Means to Be American
on
April 17, 2015
‘A Vehicle of Genocide’: These Mass. Towns Were Founded on the Killing of Native Americans
Estimates say that millions of dollars and tens of thousands of acres of land throughout New England were given to soldiers who scalped Native Americans.
by
Andrew Botolino
via
WGBH
on
February 3, 2025
Fallout 4 and the Erasure of the Native in (Post-Apocalyptic) New England
It is not attempting to tell a story about Native erasure. It is not trying to tell a story about Native Americans at all. And that tells the real story.
by
Thomas Lecaque
via
Age of Revolutions
on
January 27, 2025
American Captivity
The captivity narrative as creation myth.
by
Ed Simon
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
March 1, 2022
The “Indianized” Landscape of Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, the inclusion of Native American names and places in local geography has obscured the violence of political and territorial dispossession.
by
Mark Jarzombek
via
Places Journal
on
February 1, 2021
The Art of Whaling: Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships
The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business. But between the frantic calls of “there she blows!”, there was plenty of time for creation too.
by
Jessica Boyall
via
The Public Domain Review
on
January 13, 2021
Returning Corn, Beans, and Squash to Native American Farms
Returning the "three sisters" to Native American farms nourishes people, land, and cultures.
by
Christina Gish Hill
via
The Conversation
on
November 20, 2020
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American as Pumpkin Pie: A History of Thanksgiving
Why Pilgrims would be stunned by our "traditional" Thanksgiving table, and other surprising truths about the invention of our national holiday.
via
BackStory
on
November 25, 2016
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