Nov

27

Happy Thanksgiving

November 27, 2008 | 113 Comments

How was your Thanksgiving? Mine is not so bad. My sister called from CA wishing my family a Happy Thanksgiving. I started cooking late and didn’t that my nieces are leaving early to work, so I have to cook all the side dish for them to eat. Turkey was done at 4:30pm and they had [...]

Nov

22

Cont. (last part)

November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

         For three days the Wampanoags feasted with the      Pilgrims. It was a special time of friendship between two      very different groups of people. A peace and friendship      agreement was made between Massasoit and Miles Standish      giving the Pilgrims the clearing in the forest where [...]

Nov

22

Cont.

November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

        By the time fall arrived things were going much better      for the Pilgrims, thanks to the help they had received. The      corn they planted had grown well. There was enough food to      last the winter. They were living comfortably in their      Indian-style wigwams [...]

Nov

22

Cont.

November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Squanto was originally from the village of Patuxet (Pa
TUK et) and a member of the Pokanokit Wampanoag nation.
Patuxet once stood on the exact site where the Pilgrims
built Plymouth. In 1605, fifteen years before the Pilgrims
came, Squanto went to England with a friendly English
explorer named John Weymouth. He had many adventures and
learned to speak English. [...]

Nov

22

Cont.

November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

There were two language groups of Indians in New
England at this time. The Iroquois were neighbors to the
Algonkian-speaking people. Leaders of the Algonquin and
Iroquois people were called “sachems” (SAY chems). Each
village had its own sachem and tribal council. Political
power flowed upward from the people. Any individual, man or
woman, could participate, but among the Algonquins [...]

Nov

22

History of Thanksgiving

November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

THE PLYMOUTH THANKSGIVING STORY
When the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1620,
they landed on the rocky shores of a territory that was
inhabited by the Wampanoag (Wam pa NO ag) Indians. The
Wampanoags were part of the Algonkian-speaking peoples, a
large group that was part of the Woodland Culture area.
These Indians lived in villages along the coast of [...]