"What you learned about the 'first Thanksgiving' isn't true. Here's the real story..."

[stopdiggin]

3. The Pilgrims did encounter as least some

native figures that spoke English. This due to the fact that slavery had already seen native Americans transported to Europe (and England) and back to the eastern seaboard by the time the Pilgrims arrived. Squanto is the name most frequently brought forward -- but due to the fact that trade was already firmly established (and extremely coveted on both sides) between Europeans and natives -- there were most likely others.

(The real history involving European contact (trade, politics, enslavement, disease, rivalries, alliances, kindnesses and treacheries ...) -- is vastly more complicated than we've been given to understand. Including politics, double-dealing, greed and betrayal among the native people themselves. But it ALL is a long, long way from the "helpful Indian -- thankful Pilgrim" BS!!)