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Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs

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Colonization and the Wampanoag Story

Linda Coombs

Random House Children's Books · Paperback · September 12, 2023

Reading lane: Indigenous History

Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists.

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Why This Clicks

A Different Beginning

Revisit familiar accounts of America’s beginnings through the perspective of New England Indigenous Nations.

Come here for

  • A fresh angle on the stories of Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the first Thanksgiving

Expect

  • An Indigenous perspective on colonization and America’s earliest days

Book Details

Authors
Linda Coombs
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
September 12, 2023
Format
Paperback
Theme
Indigenous History · Native American Life (U.S.)
Reading lane
Indigenous History

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Publisher Categories

  • Native American Life (U.S.)

  • Prejudice & Racism

  • Indigenous History

About This Book

Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists. Here's the true story of America from the Indigenous perspective. When you think about the beginning of the American story, what comes to mind? Three ships in 1492, or perhaps buckled hats and shoes stepping off of the Mayflower, ready to start a new country. But the truth is, Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists didn'...

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Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists. Here's the true story of America from the Indigenous perspective. When you think about the beginning of the American story, what comes to mind? Three ships in 1492, or perhaps buckled hats and shoes stepping off of the Mayflower, ready to start a new country. But the truth is, Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists didn't arrive to a vast, empty land ready to be developed. They arrived to find people and communities living in harmony with the land they had inhabited for thousands of years, and they quickly disrupted everything they saw. From its "discovery" by Europeans to the first Thanksgiving, the story of America's earliest days has been carefully misrepresented. Told from the perspective of the New England Indigenous Nations that these outsiders found when they arrived, this is the true story of how America as we know it today began.

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