This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving Cherokee exposing along the way the

exposing along the way the shifting politics of whiteness

of Congress confining pregnant women

"Jacqueline Keeler weaves personal experience

which are intense at first but gradually become less frequent as time goes on

descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land

This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving Cherokee exposing along the way theAhead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the