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This MA Native American tribe sat down with Pilgrims at the 'first' Thanksgiving, but it didn't go as the traditional story suggests.
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Members of the Wampanoag perform a dance as they share their cultural dances with the public and call on them to take part ...
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The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
Editor’s note: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century ...
Neither the pious and precision-minded Virginians of the Church of England in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation, nor their early Puritan cousins in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, created our national ...