e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Call NumberItem BarcodeBib NumberISBN/ISSN       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Silverman, David J., 1971-     Subjects     Wampanoag Indians -- History -- 17th century.     Thanksgiving Day -- History.     Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Massachusetts.     Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.     Massachusetts -- Race relations -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Silverman, David J., 1971-       by title:      This land is their l...       by call number:      974.4 W243s     Search the Web     Silverman, David J., 1971-     Wampanoag Indians -- History -- 17th century.     Thanksgiving Day -- History.     Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Massachusetts.     Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.     Massachusetts -- Race relations -- History.       MARC Display

This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving / David J. Silverman. by Silverman, David J., 1971- Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. Call #: 974.4 W243s Subjects Wampanoag Indians -- History -- 17th century.   Thanksgiving Day -- History.   Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Massachusetts.   Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.   Massachusetts -- Race relations -- History. ISBN:  9781632869241 (hc.) Description:  x, 514 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-498) and index. Summary:  "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 English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 974.4 W243s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.