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Every November, Americans gather around the table to celebrate Thanksgiving in commemoration of the 17th-century partnership between the newly arrived English colonists and the Indigenous Wampanoag people.
In 1620, about 100 religious Pilgrims left England on the Mayflower for the"New World" and landed in modern-day southeastern Massachusetts, a region inhabited by the Wampanoag people. They'd originally planned to settle in the northern part of the preexisting Virginia Colony, but bad weather led them to seek shelter in Cape Cod, where they then decided to stay, according to the Plimouth Patuxet Museums.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over."The fact that their friendship was also a military alliance against the Narragansetts understandably usually isn't included in the kids versions," Kathleen DuVal, a historian who specializes in early American history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told Live Science in an email.
"They ate corn, fish, deer, and local fowl, which probably included wild turkey," DuVal said. The Wampanoag"probably brought corn and meat as well," she added.
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