#weetamoo heart of the pocassets

[pancreasnostalgia]

Reposted from two years ago.

Raw Cranberry Relish, from Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets. Cranberries are one of my favorite parts of the Thanksgiving meal but we usually make it as a sauce. This way is much less prep work, as the food processor saves a lot of time. What’s in the bowl is half of what I made.

There was no citation for this recipe so I don’t know if it was provided by the author Patricia Clark Smith, or from elsewhere.

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Read of Weetamoo Heart of the Pocassets by Patricia Clark Smith (2003) (165pgs)

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Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts-Rhode Island, 1653 by Patricia Clark Smith (2003)

[emjee]

FIFTEEN? royal diaries? never knew there was so much. My best friend sure must get on with it to tell me all about all the one i don't know about lmao

There are twenty of them! Here's the full list:

Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544 by Kathryn Lasky (1999)

Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. by Kristiana Gregory (1999)

Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466 by Carolyn Meyer (2000)

Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France 1769 by Kathryn Lasky (2000)

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 by Carolyn Meyer (2000)

Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 by Patricia McKissack (2000)

Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 by Ellen Emerson White (2001)

Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, 531 A.D. by Laurence Yep (2001)

Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829 by Anna Kirwan (2001)

Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France, 1553 by Kathryn Lasky (2002)

Sŏndŏk: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, 595 A.D. by Sheri Holman (2002)

Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 by Kathryn Lasky (2002)

Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136 by Kristiana Gregory (2002)

Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853 by Barry Denenberg (2003)

Kristina: The Girl King, Sweden, 1638 by Carolyn Meyer (2003)

Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts-Rhode Island, 1653 by Patricia Clark Smith (2003)

Lady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749 by Anna Kirwan (2004)

Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858 by Kathryn Lasky (2004)

Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 by Edwidge Danticat (2005)

Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743 by Kristiana Gregory (2005)

I read every single one of them.

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The celebrations surrounding the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing in Massachusetts, brought with them a challenge for Paula Peters.

"For so long, the story of the Wampanoag has been really romanticized, and the true story of how the Wampanoag were treated is marginalized," she said. "So this 400th anniversary has become an opportunity to elevate and balance that story."

Peters is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag nation, and was asked to help reframe the Mayflower's story from an Indigenous perspective.

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Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544 by Kathryn Lasky (1999) Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. by Kristiana Gregory (1999)[1] Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466 by Carolyn Meyer (2000) Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France 1769 by Kathryn Lasky (2000) Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 by Carolyn Meyer (2000) Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 by Patricia McKissack (2000)[2] Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 by Ellen Emerson White (2001) Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, 531 A.D. by Laurence Yep (2001) Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829 by Anna Kirwan (2001) Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France, 1553 by Kathryn Lasky (2002)[3] Sŏndŏk: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, 595 A.D. by Sheri Holman (2002) Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 by Kathryn Lasky (2002) Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136 by Kristiana Gregory (2002) Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853 by Barry Denenberg (2003) Kristina: The Girl King, Sweden, 1638 by Carolyn Meyer (2003) Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts-Rhode Island, 1653 by Patricia Clark Smith (2003) Lady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749 by Anna Kirwan (2004) Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858 by Kathryn Lasky (2004) Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 by Edwidge Danticat (2005) Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743 by Kristiana Gregory (2005)

The bolded ones are all the ones I remember reading/owning (whether from the library or on one of my regular walks/bike rides to Barnes and Noble)

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We falsely remember a Thanksgiving of intercultural harmony. Perhaps we should recall instead how English settlers cheated, abused, killed, and eventually drove Wampanoags into a conflict, known as King Philip’s War, that exploded across the region in 1675 and 1676 and that was one of the most devastating wars in the history of North American settlement. Native soldiers attacked fifty-two towns in New England, destroyed seventeen of them, and killed a substantial portion of the settler population. The region also lost as much as forty per cent of its Native population, who fought on both sides. Confronted by Mohawks to the west, a mixed set of Indian and Colonial foes to the south, and the English to the east, Pumetacom was surrounded on three sides. In the north, the scholar Lisa Brooks argues, Abenaki and other allies continued the struggle for years. In “Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War” (Yale), Brooks deepens the story considerably, focussing on indigenous geographical and linguistic knowledge, and tracing the life of Weetamoo, the widow of Wamsutta and the saunkskwa, or female leader, of her tribe, the Pocasset. Weetamoo was Pumetacom’s ally, his relative, and a major figure in the fight. In the end, not only Pumetacom’s head was stuck on a pike; hers was, too, displayed for Wampanoag prisoners who were likely soon to be sold to the Caribbean.

The Thanksgiving story buries the major cause of King Philip’s War—the relentless seizure of Indian land. It also covers up the consequence. The war split Wampanoags, as well as every other Native group, and ended with indigenous resistance broken, and the colonists giving thanks. Like most Colonial wars, this one was a giant slave expedition, marked by the seizure and sale of Indian people. Wampanoags were judged criminals and—in a foreshadowing of the convict-labor provision of the Thirteenth Amendment—sold into bondage. During the next two centuries, New England Indians also suffered indentured servitude, convict labor, and debt peonage, which often resulted in the enslavement of the debtor’s children. Thanksgiving’s Pilgrim pageants suggest that good-hearted settlers arrived from pious, civilized England. We could remember it differently: that they came from a land that delighted in displaying heads on poles and letting bodies rot in cages suspended above the roads. They were a warrior tribe.

[tigriswolf]

books read July 1 - December 31

ital for fun; bold ital for school/research

1.      The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss

2.       I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home by Kenneth Koch

3.      Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror by Stephen John Hartnett

4.       Split by Cathy Linh Che

5.      Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide by Sharan Merriam, Rosemary Caffarella, & Lisa Baumgartner  

6.       Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire

7.      The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy

8.      Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII by Kyra Cornelius Kramer

9.      Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII by Sarah-Beth Watkins

10.  Catherine: The Great Journey by Kristiana Gregory

11.  Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky

12.  Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine by Kristiana Gregory

13.  The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of Literary Work by Louise M. Rosenblatt

14.  Wild Wisdom: Animal Stories of the Southwest by Rae Ann Kumelos & Jan Taylor

15.  Jahanara: Princess of Princesses by Kathryn Lasky

16.  The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King

17.  Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen without a Country by Kathryn Lasky

18.  Tantivy by Donald Revell 

19.  Literature as Exploration by Louise M. Rosenblatt

20.  Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven by Kathryn Lasky

21.  Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba by Patricia McKissack

22.  Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII by Gareth Russell 

23.  Composing a Culture: Inside a Summer Writing Program with High School Teachers by Bonnie Sunstein 

24.   Red Butterfly by A. L. Sonnichsen

25.  Participant Observation by James P. Spradley 

26.  Kaiulani: The People’s Princess by Ellen Emerson White

27.  Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia by Anna Kirwan

28.  Ask Me: 100 Essential poems by William Stafford (ed. by Kim Stafford)

29.  The Daily Spark: Spelling and Grammar

30.  The Half Child by Kathleen Hersom

31.  The Waters and the Wild by Francesca Lia Block

32.  Elisabeth: The Princess Bride by Barry Denenberg

33.  Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets by Patricia Clark Smith

34.  Anacaona: Golden Flower by Edwidge Danticat

35.  Isabel: Jewel of Castilla by Carolyn Meyer

36.  Kristina: The Girl King by Carolyn Meyer

37.  Lady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal by Anna Kirwan

38.  Sad Birds Still Sing by faraway

39.  Lady of Ch’iao Kuo: Warrior of the South by Laurence Yep

40.  Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile by Kristiana Gregory

41.  Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess by Carolyn Meyer

42.  Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor by Kathryn Lasky

43.  Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, translated by George Thomson

44.  The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N.K. Sandars

45.  Collected Poems by Louise Bogan

46.  Guests by Teresa Cader

47.  Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life by Johnny Saldana & Matt Omasta

48.  Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner

49. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

50. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

51. 10,000 Years of Art published by Phaidon 

52. Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

53. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

54. California Demon by Julie Kenner

55.  Demons Are Forever by Julie Kenner

56.  Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

57. Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

58. Crooked House by Agatha Christie

59. Talking to Dragons (revised) by Patricia C. Wrede

60. Talking to Dragons (original) by Patricia C. Wrede

61.  Book of Enchantments by Patricia C. Wrede

62. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

63. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 

64. Case Study Research: Design and Methods by Robert K. Yin

65. A Fair Wind for Troy by Doris Gates

66. Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research by D. Jean Clandinin & F. Michael Connelly 

67.  The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success by Lawrence A. Machi & Brenda T. McEvoy

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Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets

Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets

I can’t believe we’re almost done with the Royal Diaries as well! Wow, time is flying by. Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts-Rhode Island, 1653, Patricia Clark-Smith, 2003. Now, here is something interesting. This is the only Royal Diaries book that closely intersects with a regular Dear America book (that being A Journey To The New World, which takes place in 1620-1621, and mentions…

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Edward Winslow, b. Droitwich, England, Oct. 18, 1595, d. May 8, 1655, was a founder and leader of the Plymouth Colony and its most effective diplomat (for the Pilgrims to get what they wanted not for the Wampanoag peoples). A member of the Pilgrim community in Leiden, he helped arrange the passage of the group to America on the Mayflower.

In 1620, he negotiated a treaty with Wampanoag chief Massasoit, and he subsequently went on several missions to secure supplies and establish fur-trading posts. He procured cattle on his first trip (1623–24) to England. During a later mission (1635), Archbishop William Laud imprisoned him for 17 weeks for his religious activities. Winslow was governor of the Plymouth Colony for three years (1633–34, 1636–37, 1644–45) and, except for those years, an assistant from 1624 to 1646. Winslow went to England in 1646 to defend the Massachusetts Bay Colony and never returned to New England. He held several posts in Oliver Cromwell's Puritan government.

Nearly all of what historians have learned about the first Thanksgiving comes from a single eyewitness report: a letter written in December 1621 by Edward Winslow. William Bradford, Plymouth’s governor in 1621, wrote briefly of the event in Of Plymouth Plantation, his history of the colony, but that was more than 20 years after the feast itself.

He is the only original Plymouth colonist with an extant portrait painted from life.

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Some Books Published in Years Ending in 3

Pride and Prejudice-1813 Jane Austen

Villette-1853 Charlotte Bronte

Treasure Island-1883 Robert Louis Stevenson

Japanese Folktales-1903 Various

The Return of Tarzan-1913 Edgar Rice Burroughs

Memories of the Russian Court-1923 Anna Vryubova

After the Funeral-1953 Agatha Christie

Fahrenheit 451-1953 Ray Bradbury

Life Among The Savages-1953 Shirley Jackson

Pnin-1953 Vladimir Nabokov

The Silver Chair-1953 C.S. Lewis

Planet of the Apes-1963 Pierre Boulle

Princess Knight 1-1963 Osamu Tezuka

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes-1973 David Gerrold

Bilbo's Last Song-1973 J.R.R. Tolkien

Escape From The Planet Of The Apes-1973 Jerry Pournelle

Christine-1983 Stephen King

Cycle of the Werewolf-1983

Pet Semetary-1983 Stephen King

Return of the Jedi-1983 James Kahn

The Book of Lost Tales 1-1983 J.R.R. Tolkien

The Queen's Gambit-1983 Walter Tevis

Nightmares & Dreamscapes-1993 Stephen King

The Elephant Vanishes-1993 Haruki Murakami

The Giver-1993 Lois Lowery

The Graveyard Apartment-1993 Mariko Koike

Between Sisters-2003 Kristin Hannah

Elisabeth the Princess Bride-2003 Barry Denenberg

Grotesque-2003 Natsuo Kirino

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix-2003 J.K. Rowling

Ju-On-2003 Kei Ohishi

Keeping You A Secret-2003 Julie Anne Peters

Kristina the Girl King-2003 Carolyn Meyer

Milkweed-2003 Jerry Spinelli

The Cake Tree In The Ruins-2003 Akiyuki Nosaka

Weetamoo Heart of the Pocassets-2003 Patricia Clark Smith

Wolves of the Calla-2003 Stephen King

Blood & Beauty-2013 Sarah Dunant

Blood Sisters-2013 Sarah Gristwood

Citrus 1-2013 Saburouta

Crazy Rich Asians-2013 Kevin Kwan

Dead Mountain-2013 Donnie Eichar

Doctor Sleep-2013 Stephen King

Frankenstein-2013 Junji Ito

Hitler's Furies-2013 Wendy Lower

Joyland-2013 Stephen King

N0S4A2-2013 Joe Hill

Orphan Train-2013 Christina Baker Kline

Prisoner B-3087-2013 Alan Gratz

Scarlet-2013 Marissa Meyer

Smashed-2013 Junji Ito

Splintered-2013 A.G. Howard

The Abominable-2013 Dan Simmons

The Descent-2013 Alma Katsu

The Girls of Atomic City-2013 Denise Kiernan

The Goldfinch-2013 Donna Tartt

The Gravity Between Us-2013 Kristen Zimmer

The Secret Daughter of the Tsar-2013 Jennifer Laam

The White Princess-2013 Philippa Gregory

Verily, A New Hope-2013 Ian Doescher

Loathe To Love You-2023 Ali Hazelwood

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Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, by Patricia Clark Smith. It is slightly surprising to me that they never made a Royal Diary about Pocahontas (and I wouldn’t have necessarily minded if they had), but I’m glad they chose this royal figure who is often only mentioned within the context of other people. I learned about Metacom (King Philip) in U.S. history and on Crash Course but the only time I hear about Weetamoo is in reference to Mary Rowlandson’s captivity. Smith discusses these both.

The epilogue is quite long, almost historical note long, and is very detailed in what we do know about Weetamoo and King Philip’s War.

Since Weetamoo didn’t have a written language, there is a disclaimer at the beginning and end to imagine that she’s telling her story through pictures and contemplation.

Goodreads star rating: 4/5

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The Suppressed Speech of Wamsutta (Frank B.) James, Wampanoag

To have been delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1970

Three hundred fifty years after the Pilgrims began their invasion of the land of the Wampanoag, their "American" descendants planned an anniversary celebration. Still clinging to the white schoolbook myth of friendly relations between their forefathers and the Wampanoag, the anniversary planners thought it would be nice to have an Indian make an appreciative and complimentary speech at their state dinner. Frank James was asked to speak at the celebration. He accepted. The planners, however, asked to see his speech in advance of the occasion, and it turned out that Frank James' views — based on history rather than mythology — were not what the Pilgrims' descendants wanted to hear. Frank James refused to deliver a speech written by a public relations person. Frank James did not speak at the anniversary celebration.

If he had spoken, this is what he would have said:

I speak to you as a man -- a Wampanoag Man. I am a proud man, proud of my ancestry, my accomplishments won by a strict parental direction ("You must succeed - your face is a different color in this small Cape Cod community!"). I am a product of poverty and discrimination from these two social and economic diseases. I, and my brothers and sisters, have painfully overcome, and to some extent, we have earned the respect of our community. We are Indians first - but we are termed "good citizens." Sometimes we are arrogant but only because society has pressured us to be so.

It is with mixed emotion that I stand here to share my thoughts. This is a time of celebration for you - celebrating an anniversary of a beginning for the white man in America. A time of looking back, of reflection. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my People.

Even before the Pilgrims landed it was common practice for explorers to capture Indians, take them to Europe and sell them as slaves for 220 shillings apiece. The Pilgrims had hardly explored the shores of Cape Cod for four days before they had robbed the graves of my ancestors and stolen their corn and beans. Mourt's Relation describes a searching party of sixteen men. Mourt goes on to say that this party took as much of the Indians' winter provisions as they were able to carry.

Massasoit, the great Sachem of the Wampanoag, knew these facts, yet he and his People welcomed and befriended the settlers of the Plymouth Plantation. Perhaps he did this because his Tribe had been depleted by an epidemic. Or his knowledge of the harsh oncoming winter was the reason for his peaceful acceptance of these acts. This action by Massasoit was perhaps our biggest mistake. We, the Wampanoag, welcomed you, the white man, with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end; that before 50 years were to pass, the Wampanoag would no longer be a free people.

What happened in those short 50 years? What has happened in the last 300 years?

History gives us facts and there were atrocities; there were broken promises - and most of these centered around land ownership. Among ourselves, we understood that there were boundaries, but never before had we had to deal with fences and stone walls. But the white man had a need to prove his worth by the amount of land that he owned. Only ten years later, when the Puritans came, they treated the Wampanoag with even less kindness in converting the souls of the so-called "savages." Although the Puritans were harsh to members of their own society, the Indian was pressed between stone slabs and hanged as quickly as any other "witch."

And so down through the years there is record after record of Indian lands taken and, in token, reservations set up for him upon which to live. The Indian, having been stripped of his power, could only stand by and watch while the white man took his land and used it for his personal gain. This the Indian could not understand; for to him, land was survival, to farm, to hunt, to be enjoyed. It was not to be abused. We see incident after incident, where the white man sought to tame the "savage" and convert him to the Christian ways of life. The early Pilgrim settlers led the Indian to believe that if he did not behave, they would dig up the ground and unleash the great epidemic again.

The white man used the Indian's nautical skills and abilities. They let him be only a seaman -- but never a captain. Time and time again, in the white man's society, we Indians have been termed "low man on the totem pole."

Has the Wampanoag really disappeared? There is still an aura of mystery. We know there was an epidemic that took many Indian lives - some Wampanoags moved west and joined the Cherokee and Cheyenne. They were forced to move. Some even went north to Canada! Many Wampanoag put aside their Indian heritage and accepted the white man's way for their own survival. There are some Wampanoag who do not wish it known they are Indian for social or economic reasons.

What happened to those Wampanoags who chose to remain and live among the early settlers? What kind of existence did they live as "civilized" people? True, living was not as complex as life today, but they dealt with the confusion and the change. Honesty, trust, concern, pride, and politics wove themselves in and out of their [the Wampanoags'] daily living. Hence, he was termed crafty, cunning, rapacious, and dirty.

History wants us to believe that the Indian was a savage, illiterate, uncivilized animal. A history that was written by an organized, disciplined people, to expose us as an unorganized and undisciplined entity. Two distinctly different cultures met. One thought they must control life; the other believed life was to be enjoyed because nature decreed it. Let us remember, the Indian is and was just as human as the white man. The Indian feels pain, gets hurt, and becomes defensive, has dreams, bears tragedy and failure, suffers from loneliness, needs to cry as well as laugh. He, too, is often misunderstood.

The white man in the presence of the Indian is still mystified by his uncanny ability to make him feel uncomfortable. This may be the image the white man has created of the Indian; his "savageness" has boomeranged and isn't a mystery; it is fear; fear of the Indian's temperament!

High on a hill, overlooking the famed Plymouth Rock stands the statue of our great Sachem, Massasoit. Massasoit has stood there many years in silence. We the descendants of this great Sachem have been a silent people. The necessity of making a living in this materialistic society of the white man caused us to be silent. Today, I and many of my people are choosing to face the truth. We ARE Indians!

Although time has drained our culture, and our language is almost extinct, we the Wampanoags still walk the lands of Massachusetts. We may be fragmented, we may be confused. Many years have passed since we have been a people together. Our lands were invaded. We fought as hard to keep our land as you the whites did to take our land away from us. We were conquered, we became the American prisoners of war in many cases, and wards of the United States Government, until only recently.

Our spirit refuses to die. Yesterday we walked the woodland paths and sandy trails. Today we must walk the macadam highways and roads. We are uniting We're standing not in our wigwams but in your concrete tent. We stand tall and proud, and before too many moons pass we'll right the wrongs we have allowed to happen to us.

We forfeited our country. Our lands have fallen into the hands of the aggressor. We have allowed the white man to keep us on our knees. What has happened cannot be changed, but today we must work towards a more humane America, a more Indian America, where men and nature once again are important; where the Indian values of honor, truth, and brotherhood prevail.

You the white man are celebrating an anniversary. We the Wampanoags will help you celebrate in the concept of a beginning. It was the beginning of a new life for the Pilgrims. Now, 350 years later it is a beginning of a new determination for the original American: the American Indian.

There are some factors concerning the Wampanoags and other Indians across this vast nation. We now have 350 years of experience living amongst the white man. We can now speak his language. We can now think as a white man thinks. We can now compete with him for the top jobs. We're being heard; we are now being listened to. The important point is that along with these necessities of everyday living, we still have the spirit, we still have a unique culture, we still have the will and, most important of all, the determination to remain as Indians. We are determined, and our presence here this evening is living testimony that this is only the beginning of the American Indian, particularly the Wampanoag, to regain the position in this country that is rightfully ours.

Wamsutta

September 10, 1970

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This video tells the story of the National Day of Mourning.

The protest takes place on Thanksgiving every year since 1970, for over 50 years, to highlight the suffering of the Native American people.

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We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân

A Mashpee Wampanoag named Jessie Little Doe Baird leads her community on a quest to revive their tribe's lost language.

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Re-informed: The Making of the Wetu

This film in the Re-informed digital series enables viewers to discover what life was like before the Mayflower passengers arrived in America and how the Native American people lived their lives before they were changed forever by colonisation. It explores the culture of the Wampanoag people, whose land the Mayflower passengers settled on, and looks at their day-to-day lives including how they built a typical Wampanoag home - known as a Wetu.

The Making of the Wetu' film speaks to Darius Coombs, one of the designers of a specially-commissioned Wetu that is hoped to travel to the UK later this year and go on display on the grounds of Bassetlaw Museum in Nottinghamshire - close to the homes of Mayflower passengers such as the Bradford and Brewster families.