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A New Look at Thanksgiving Using Children's Literature
Bordeaux Children's November Family Favorites
Native American Heritage Month for Kids
Sky Bear 2023
Bordeaux Children's November Family Favorites
Native American Heritage Month for Kids
Sky Bear 2023
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Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeâchumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the Pilgrims how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621.
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"Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--
Challenging popular misconceptions about the actual events behind major historical periods, a fact-first chronicle of the Mayflower voyage and founding of the Plymouth Rock colony reveals how the Pilgrims nearly settled elsewhere, almost had a second ship and only met the Wampanoag months after arriving.--
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Demonstrates what it was like to be a passenger on the "Mayflower" by giving readers a chance to choose between various jobs, ailments, food choices, and other experiences. Page spreads present questions and offer bullet points followed by short paragraphs explaining the consequences of each choice. Includes additional questions to ponder, illustrations, photographs, a glossary, and resources for further reading.
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Describes how young John Howland got a job as an indentured servant in order to follow his master, Pilgrim John Carver, on the "Mayflower" to the New World. On the way, John had a bit of luck as he survived falling overboard during a storm. Then, he helped the Pilgrims find a safe harbor as they came into New England, and played an instrumental part in building up their first settlement.
11) Beheld: a novel
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Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough.
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"Mary Elizabeth Chapman boards the Speedwell in 1620 as a Separatist seeking a better life in the New World. William Lytton embarks on the Mayflower as a carpenter looking for opportunities to succeed-and he may have found one when a man from the Virginia Company offers William a hefty sum to keep a stealth eye on company interests in the new colony. The season is far too late for good sailing and storms rage, but reaching land is no better as food...
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This episode begins in March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, when Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, negotiated with a ragged group of English colonists. The pale-skinned Pilgrim foreigners were in desperate need of Native help. Massasoit's people had been decimated by unexplained sickness, and he calculated that an alliance with the foreigners could help protect them. A half-century later, as war flared between the...
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Sally Field discovers that she descends from William Bradford, who arrived on the Mayflower and helped his fellow English Puritans establish their new lives in colonial America and later discovers that her ancestors sided with the British crown during our nation's War of Independence and paid the ultimate price. Deepak Chopra's family made a similar gamble while living under harsh British colonial rule in India, where his grandparents pledged their...
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Contrasts the Thanksgiving holiday with the National Day of Mourning observed by Native Americans. Explores the origins of both days, including the arrival of the Pilgrims, their relationship with the Wampanoag, uncertainty over what really happened during the first Thanksgiving, and their observance today. Includes color and black-and-white photographs, sidebars, text-related questions, a glossary, and additional resources.