Same back to you and everyone here! I’ve been re-reading some New England history lately (where I grew up) and from what I gather Puritan/Indian relations were actually not too bad during the time period known for Thanksgiving. There was mutual interest in good relations on both sides at the time for many reasons (good and not so), though not all the regional tribes were fond of the English. Up until 1675 when King Phillips War started both sides at least made an attempt to live side by side resulting in 40 or so years of general peace. The Natives got the short end in the long run as we all know, but there was an effort made by the Puritan English to be fair, if on their own terms, so the story that it was a planned, one-sided genocide during that time, at least in the New England cradle of Thanksgiving is not true. The Thanksgiving story has a basis in good relations between both sides and that shouldn’t be lost in some of the contemporary revisionism. But hey, I’m no historian so Happy Thanksgiving!!
