massasoit's and and bradford determines that. bradford determines that they need to go visit massasoit in his home in pocan oaken. so he sends out a delegation including edward wins low will be will become massasoit's best friend among the pilgrims and stephen hopkins, a stranger who appears to be in jamestown prior to boarding the mayflower. he had some experience with the native americans. by this time squanto is still alive and he goes with him walking the hard pack native trails, at that crisscross new england at this point. 45 minute walk from plymouth the pocan oaken. they head out walking, these trails, they just left the settlement when they come across a group of native americans who have been collecting harbor a lobsters in plymouth harbor. they begin to talk. as they conversed with their new companions, the englishman learned that to walk across the land in southern new england was to travel in time. all along this narrow trail were secular foot deep holes in the ground that had been dug were any remarkable activity oc

they've just forged the alliance with massasoit. and bradford determines that they need to go visit massasoit in his home in pokanoke. so he sends out a delegation including winslow, who had become massasoit's best friend, and steven hawkins, who appears to have been in jamestown prior to boarding the mayflower and had experience with the native americans. squanto is still alive and he goes with them walking the hard-packed native triails that criss-crossed new england at this time. it's about a 45-minute walk and they head out. there's no horses yet, so they're walking these trails and they've just left the settlement when they come across a groupse and they cross native americans collecting lobsters. they learn that to walk across the land in southern new england was to travel in time. all along this nay row hard packed trail was circular foot deep holes in the ground that had been dug where any remarkable act had occurred. it every person's responsibility to maintain them so many things of great antiquity, so has as a man travels

massasoit was a leader. he wasn't dumb. he's thinking this guy is considered to be a sagama chief too but he can speak english and also he's not one of my men, so i don't know what's going to happen to him. come march 16th, march 16, '21 he set into the village. considered naked, he didn't have much clothing on. you see what this guy has on now. he had on just a beach cloth. he goes in and says welcome englishmen in their own language. which they were shocked seeing a native person speak english to them. he told them about the land and the area and the plague that just came through. he stayed in the house that evening, which in my mind is kind of different. but they carefully watched him overnight. he said you know what, i'm not from here. i'm going to bring you a leader who is. he goes back and tells massasoit that it was all right to come along. later in march massasoit comes along and brings 60 of his men and that's when they make the famous treaty between the two people, the peace treaty, treaty of diplomacy, one needed

when somerset and squanto came, they told the pilgrims a great chief, massasoit, was nearby and wanted. the pilgrims decided to welcome him. ♪ they brought massasoit, chief of the wampanoag indians, to meet their governor. the two leaders ate and drank together. during this friendly meeting, they discussed a peace treaty by which neither the pilgrims or the indians should do harm to one another, but would assist each other whenever help might be needed. ♪ massassoit agreed, and the treaty that was made would last for 24 years. now that peace was made with the indians, the pilgrims felt safe. now, they could allow the mayflower to sail back to england. as they watched, perhaps they realized they would never see their old homes again, but they had homes now in their new colony of plymouth. they realized, too, that the merchants in england who had lent money to the colony would be waiting to be repaid in trade goods from them, so there was still much work to be done in this first year. it was now april. ♪ >> as many as were able began to plant corn. squanto told them to set fish in the gr

massasoit agreed and the treaty that was made would last for 24 years.peace was made with the indians, the pilgrims felt safe. now, they could allow the mayflower to sail back to england. as they watched, perhaps they realized they would never see their old homes again, but they had new homes now in their new colony of plymouth. they realized, too, that the merchants in england who had lent money to the colony would be waiting to be repaid in trade goods. so there was still much work to be done in the first year. it was now april. >> as many as were able began to plant corn. squanto told them to set fish in the ground to help it grow. he also directed them where to catch fish. so all that summer, there was no want and every family had their portion. >> in the small but sturdy homes the pilgrims had built, cooking and studying and every day of family life was going on. as the summer of their first year came to an end, pilgrim farmers harvested the corn they planted. to celebrate their harvest, they prepared a feast. there was food they had grown, wild tur

massasoit at his home. he sends out a delegation, including edward winslow, who had become massasoit's best friend among the pilgrims, and stephen hopkins, a stranger who appears to have been in jamestown prior to boarding the mayflower and had some experience with native americans. at this point, squanto is still alive. he goes with them, walking the hardpacked native trails that crisscross new england at this time. it is about a 45-mile walk from plymouth. they head out. there are no horses yet in plymouth colony, so they had just left the settlement when they come across a group of native americans who had been collecting lobsters in plymouth harbor. they began to talk. as they conversed with their new englishman== -- englishmen learned that to walk across the land in southern new england was to travel in time. all along, this narrow hardpacked trail, where circular, foot-deep holes that occurred were anything remarkable had occurred. it was to inform fellow travelers what had happened in that place so m

the bloodiest per capita in new england, and a couple more years farther north, king phillip was massasoit's second son. that guy was something to reckon with. he actually heard about nantucket, a native person talking bad about him. he took his canoe and paddled out here to confront this person. he also asked a lot of people in the islands to join the war. that war lasted about a year and it ended up with benjamin church, led by a native guide, finding king phillip. august 12th, 1676 at his home, mount hope, pokanoke. when they found him, they dismantled him, took his head off, and took his head back and put it on the post. they were thinking what are we going to do with his wife or kid. they didn't think death was right. so what happened, a lot of these people were sold as slaves. the only thing that came close is what's going on today, a lot of these people went down to bermuda and those people still have their cultural identity. they know who they are. so we as wampanoag people go down and visit them one year and they come up and come up to mashpee. july 4th weekend, if you're around, co