| Description |
x, 514 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [443]-498) and index. |
| 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. Ousamequin 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. -- Amazon |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
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Thanksgiving Day -- History.
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Thanksgiving Day. (OCoLC)fst01149171
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Wampanoag Indians -- History -- 17th century.
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Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.
(OCoLC)fst00969743
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Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts -- Race relations -- History.
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Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1699
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| Subject |
Wampanoag Indians. (OCoLC)fst01170252
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- First contact with Europeans -- Massachusetts.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Subject |
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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| Added Title |
Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving |
| ISBN |
9781632869241 (hardcover) |
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1632869241 (hardcover) |
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