The Thanksgiving Indian costume that all the other children and I made in my elementary classroom trivialized and degraded the descendants of the proud Wampanoags, whose ancestors attended the first ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...

The Thanksgiving story deeply rooted in America’s school curriculum frames the Pilgrims as the main characters and reduces the Wampanoag Indians to supporting roles. It also erases a monumentally sad ...

Americans will gather around Thanksgiving feasts on Thursday, recalling the first such gathering in Plymouth some 400 years ago. At least that's what many will tell themselves. But the Indigenous ...

The story of the first Thanksgiving is familiar to many, but the details of the actual feast held in 1621 are often misrepresented. The meal shared between the Wampanoag Native Americans and the ...