Massasoit, Chief of the Wampanoag tribe from 1620 to 1661, was one of the most powerful native rulers of New England. He was instrumental in the survival of the early settlers at Plymouth. His faithful adherence to a treaty he signed with the pilgrims in 1621 allowed the two groups to enjoy a peaceful coexistence. History will show that these acts of kindness, however, are the beginning of the end of the Indian culture. Alvin Weeks, past Great Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men of Massachusetts, wrote Massasoit of the Wampanoags. Weeks includes a brief commentary and sketches of other great chiefs, tribes and nations, including Samoset, Squanto and Hobamock.

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.

Finding Balance brings the stories of Eastern Woodland Tribal Nations to the reader in a way that no one has ever done before. In order to determine an accurate account of a story, history must be viewed through the multiple perspectives of all involved. Finding Balance weighs in, as a valuable source. Written in a Native American perspective, Deborah Spears Moorehead's book is a unique, and compelling documentary of contrasts between Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag history and the American Colonial version of history. Finding Balance reports and reflects on the alliances and war between the Wampanoags and the British. Finding Balance examines the centuries before and after King Phillip's War through the lens of a Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag woman. Spears Moorehead transfers the reader back into a time and allows the reader a reflection of a concealed world, set up to protect the Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag after King Phillip's War. Finding Balance presents the Native American treasured stories of endurance, and determination into the future as a sovereign nation. A blend of accounts that include scholarly reports, extensive interviews, life altering research, and the Oral History of the Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag Tribal Nation, the reader will find at the core of this narrative the fortitude of the Wampanoag Nation.

One of America's earliest books and one of the most important early Pilgrim tracts to come from American colonies. This book helped persuade others to come join those who already came to Plymouth.