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How do Native Americans make peace with a national holiday that romanticizes the 1621 encounter between their ancestors and English settlers, and erases the deadly conflicts that followed?
The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Squanto Shutterstock By Joseph A. Williams/Feb. 19, 2021 12:04 pm EDT To schoolchildren, the name Squanto is associated with Thanksgiving feasts involving kids using tin safety scissors to cut up construction paper to make either faux Pilgrim hats or Native American headdresses. Squanto was the so-called "friendly Indian." He helped the English Pilgrims survive the first brutal years of the Plymouth colony through his skills as a translator and a teacher. While this grade-school assessment on the surface is correct, the truth is far more complica...