The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" — doesn’t start in ...
The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" — doesn’t start in ...
A Native interpreter in the Wampanoag Village wearing historically accurate clothing. Office of Governor Patrick In 1627, the Plimoth Plantation was home to approximately 160 permanent residents, ...
The Mattapoisett Museum is unveiling a new permanent exhibit that explores the history and culture of the Wampanoag people. The exhibit, "From the Land to the Shore: The Wampanoag of Mattapoisett," ...
The Thanksgiving story deeply rooted in America’s school curriculum frames the Pilgrims as the main characters and reduces the Wampanoag Indians to supporting roles. It also erases a monumentally sad ...
The recent visit of a traveling exhibit on Wampanoag culture to a Dartmouth library got me thinking about the role that Native Americans played in the long history of Fairhaven, our friend to the east ...
PROVINCETOWN — The Wampanoag Advisory Committee is asking the Select Board to support renaming Race Point to Meeshaun Point in honor of the original tribal village of the region. The support of the ...
The support of the board would be the first step in a lengthy federally run process, according to town, state, and federal officials. “Meeshaun is the original Wampanoag name of the village that was ...
The Pilgrims spent only a few weeks of 1620 in the Wampanoag village of Patuxet, which they would rename Plimoth (now Plymouth), and they certainly didn’t step off onto Plymouth Rock. As for that 1621 ...