Pilgrims and Puritans: Our Thanksgiving Day Story has mashed up these very different groups of founding mothers and fathers. Who were they and how were they different? Professor  Abram Van Engen from Washington University in St. Louis sorts this thorny Thanksgiving genealogy for us. Then, we hear from Paula Peters from the Wampanoag Nation and Nichelle Garcia from the Smithsonian Institution about the very important role Native Americans played in the story of the founding of our nation.

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