#tisquanto

[jeannereames]

This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.

Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621.

Yes, it’s behind a paywall/subscription, but WaPo allows a couple free reads a month.

Make THIS read one of yours. Especially this year. Give thanks, sure, for surviving Covid. But then tell the story of The Great Dying...a pandemic among the Wampanoags along the coast that killed a much larger portion of that population than Covid killed ours.

This year, of all years, don’t buy into the Old Myth. Know the Real Story.

Indigenous Lives Matter, yeah?