Native Intelligence | Thanksgiving History | Smithsonian Magazine | Cultural History | Scoop.it
The Indians who first feasted with the English colonists were far more sophisticated than you were taught in school. But that wasn't enough to save them


...Europeans had been visiting New England for at least a century. Shorter than the Natives, oddly dressed and often unbearably dirty, the pallid foreigners had peculiar blue eyes that peeped out of bristly, animal-like hair that encased their faces. They were irritatingly garrulous, prone to fits of chicanery and often surprisingly incompetent at what seemed to Indians like basic tasks.