This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving / David J. Silverman.
Silverman, David J., 1971-
2019
E99.W2 S55 2019eb
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Title This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving / David J. Silverman.
Author Silverman, David J., 1971-
ISBN 9781632869265 (electronic book)
1632869268 (electronic book)
Imprint New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 514 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number E99.W2 S55 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 974.400497348
Summary "Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousmaequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the "First Thanksgiving." The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mourning in America
The Wampanoags' old world
Danger on the horizon
Golgotha
Reaching out to strangers
Ousamequin's power play
A great man and a little child
Ungrateful
Ruining Thanksgiving
"Days of mourning and not joy"
Toward a day with less mourning.

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