wampanoag map - early 1600s
colonist map (1675-1676)
FROM THUNDER FROM A CLEAR SKY
COLONIST AND WAMPANOAG POPULATIONS
Squanto teaching the pilgrims
multiple perspectives
Text 1: The Wampanoag perspective…
“Then there was terrible sickness about. Soon after white folk were first seen upon our shores, diseases spread through our villages. The years 1616-1617, by the white man’s calendar, were death-filled. We watched helpelessly as medicine men tried to free the bad spirits from our dying loved ones. We were so desperately sick we hadn’t even the strength to bury our dead.”
~ Thunder From the Clear Sky, p. 9, Marcia Sewall
Text 2: As the Pilgrims looked for a place to build a town…
“Looking a-land we saw scrub trees and great trees growing down to ‘the brink of the sea,’ and on the hills there were large cornfields stubbly with age. And by God’s grace, when we explored we found ‘a very sweet brook’ and plentiful springs nearby. And no Indian ‘greeted’ us!”
~The Pilgrims of Plimoth, p. 10, Marica Sewall
“Then there was terrible sickness about. Soon after white folk were first seen upon our shores, diseases spread through our villages. The years 1616-1617, by the white man’s calendar, were death-filled. We watched helpelessly as medicine men tried to free the bad spirits from our dying loved ones. We were so desperately sick we hadn’t even the strength to bury our dead.”
~ Thunder From the Clear Sky, p. 9, Marcia Sewall
Text 2: As the Pilgrims looked for a place to build a town…
“Looking a-land we saw scrub trees and great trees growing down to ‘the brink of the sea,’ and on the hills there were large cornfields stubbly with age. And by God’s grace, when we explored we found ‘a very sweet brook’ and plentiful springs nearby. And no Indian ‘greeted’ us!”
~The Pilgrims of Plimoth, p. 10, Marica Sewall