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steve f We live a short drive from Plimouth Plantation, the Rock (another myth) and the Mayflower. For those that haven't been, I highly recommend a visit to these sites when on the South Shore. The superb reenactors, including Wampanoag descendants, surprisingly add the candid truth to the Thanksgiving myth. Yep, we should be quite Thankful that the kind and generous Wampanoag didn't run the pathetic, freeloading Illegals back out to sea.
Plymouth Mass 1621,
...The Pilgrim crop had failed miserably that year, but the agricultural expertise of the Indians had produced twenty acres of corn, without which the Pilgrims would have surely perished. The Indians often brought food to the Pilgrims, who came from England ridiculously unprepared to survive and hence relied almost exclusively on handouts from the overly generous Indians-thus making the Pilgrims the western hemisphere's first class of welfare recipients. The Pilgrims invited the Indian sachem Massasoit to their feast, and it was Massasoit, engaging in the tribal tradition of equal sharing, who then invited ninety or more of his Indian brothers and sisters-to the annoyance of the 50 or so ungrateful Europeans. No turkey, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie was served; they likely ate duck or geese and the venison from the 5 deer brought by Massasoit. In fact, most, if not all, of the food was brought and prepared by the Indians.