The legend of Thanksgiving goes back more than 350 years. We have all heard the story about how the Pilgrims spent Thanksgiving with the Natives and ate fully, but is this what really happened?
The Wampanoag Indians were descendants of the Iroquois who had spent their time in New England for thousands of years.
The tribe lived off the land by hunting deer and other animals in the summer and early fall, fishing salmon and herring in the spring and then moved farther inland during the winter to seek shelter from the storms.
The group lived along the coastal region in Prostate Cancer houses called ‘wigwams’ unlike the Midwest Indians who used teepees in order to travel quickly.
The people were friendly and hospitable towards strangers. However a group of English travelers had saddened villages across the region by bringing disease and capturing many to be sold on the slave market. One of the villages, Patuxet, demolished by the English was one of a famous Native American, Squanto.