This week is Thanksgiving week in the United States. On Thursday, most of us will sit down with friends, family, and other loved ones and share a large meal where we give thanks for whatever we’re grateful for over the last year.

In elementary school, we are taught to associate this holiday and its rituals with the religious separatists, or pilgrims, who migrated from England to what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts. We are taught that at the end of the fall harvest, the separatists sat down with their Indigenous neighbors to share in the bounty that the Wampanoag people helped them grow by teaching the separatists how to sow and cultivate crops like corn in the coastal soils of New England.

In this BFW Revisited episode, Episode 291, we investigate the arrival of the Mayflower and the Indigenous world the separatists arrived in. We’ll also explore how the Wampanoag and Narragansett peoples interacted with their new European neighbors and how they contended with the English people who were determined to settle on their lands.

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/291 Sponsor Links

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Complementary Episodes

• Episode 104: The Saltwater Frontier: Native Americans and Colonsits on the Northeastern Coast
• Episode 132: Indigenous London
• Episode 184: Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
• Episode 220: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of Slavery
• Episode 235: A 17th-Century Native American Life
• Episode 267: Snowshoe Country
• Episode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Pt 1

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