A few years before this potluck, a disease from shipwrecked French sailors swept through New England and killed most of the Wampanoag. The Pilgrims from the Mayflower essentially set up shop in one of their decimated villages.

While Mann says the Wampanoag likely regarded the English as “uncouth idiots” — who arrives six weeks before winter with no food? — their value derived from the trade goods they brought from Europe.Boston Globe
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