A00088 - Native American Heritage Month: The Mashpees of Massachusetts
This week, the nation shall celebrate a national day of Thanksgiving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States) The original Thanksgiving has been portrayed as the peaceful coming together of two cultures -- the Pilgrims from England and the Wampanoag of Native America -- some 400 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag However, like much of the history taught in schools, the portrayal of Native Americans has seldom been accurate and, indeed, the history of the Wampanoag before and since that inaugural Thanksgiving has been and is largely tragic. As noted in Wikipedia, The Wampanoag ... are a Native American people and an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands based in southeastern Massachusetts and historically parts of eastern Rhode Island , [3] Their territory included the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket . Today there are two federally recognized Wampanoag tr