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David Silverman

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The European Myth of Indigenous “Savages”

On race and religion in the colonization of Native Americans.

by David Silverman via Literary Hub on February 25, 2026

The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States

David Silverman

This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

David Silverman

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The Invention of Thanksgiving

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on November 18, 2019

Mashpee Wampanoag woman puts away traditional clothing in a wetu (wood-framed building).

This Tribe Helped the Pilgrims Survive for Their First Thanksgiving. They Still Regret It.

Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621.

by Dana Hedgpeth via Retropolis on November 4, 2021

The Way American Kids Are Learning About the 'First Thanksgiving' Is Changing

"I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of misconceptions."

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on November 21, 2019

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