It’s November, the time of year when we Americans get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday. Although the federal holiday we know and honor today came about in 1863, Thanksgiving is a day that many modern-day Americans associate with the Indigenous peoples and religious separatists of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

What do we know about the Indigenous people the so-called Pilgrims interacted with?

This month, in between our new episodes about Indigenous history, the Ben Franklin’s World Revisited series explores the World of the Wampanoag. The World of the Wampanoag originally posted as a two-episode series in December 2020. This first episode will introduce you to the life, societies, and cultures of the Wampanoag and Narragansett peoples the Plymouth colonists interacted with before the colonists’ arrival in December 1620.

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/290



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Complementary Episodes

• Episode 104: The Salwater Frontier: Native Americans and Colonists on the Northeastern Coast
• Episode 132: Indigenous London
• Episode 184: 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 291: The World of the Wampanoag, Pt. 2

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