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From the Macy’s Day Parade with enormous floating cartoons to presidents pardoning turkeys, the most American of holidays rests on the centuries-old story that Pilgrims and Native people held a feast of goodwill that spawned the annual turkey tradition observed across the U.S.
When Kevin McBride looks at stories about the Pequot War ― something with which he has a lot of experience ― he sees two narratives: colonist support or “lo the poor Indian.” “It’s a much more comple...
Pequot War, war fought in 1636–37 by the Pequot people against English settlers from the Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies (including the Narragansett and Mohegan) that eliminated the Pequot as an impediment to English colonization of southern New England.