Research Catalog

Title

This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving / David J. Silverman.

Author

Silverman, David J., 1971-

Publication

• New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 514 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

• "Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousmaequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the "First Thanksgiving." The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving"--
• In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. When the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation, Ousmaequin and 90 of his men visited Plymouth for the "First Thanksgiving." 400 years after that famous meal, Silverman focuses on the Wampanoag Indians as he examines the creation-- and bloody dissolution-- of their alliance. This history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrating the white proprietorship of the United States. -- adapted from jacket

Subjects

• Wampanoag Indians
• Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans
• Race relations
• History
• Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans > Massachusetts
• HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
• Thanksgiving Day > History
• Wampanoag Indians > Massachusetts > History > 17th century
• HISTORY / Native American
• 1600-1699
• Massachusetts

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-498) and index.

Contents

Mourning in America -- The Wampanoags' old world -- Danger on the horizon -- Golgotha -- Reaching out to strangers -- Ousamequin's power play -- A great man and a little child -- Ungrateful -- Ruining Thanksgiving -- "Days of mourning and not joy" -- Toward a day with less mourning.

Call Number

JFE 20-2562

ISBN

• 9781632869241
• 1632869241
• 9781632869265 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019022966

OCLC

1076501179

Author

Silverman, David J., 1971- author.

Title

This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving / David J. Silverman.

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-498) and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2562