![]() The Wampanoag alliance with the Pilgrims allowed Massasoit to emerge as a leading figure in the politics of the New England tribes.Īs other English settlers followed the Pilgrims into the New England region, tensions continued to rise. Few individuals benefited from this alliance as greatly as Massasoit, the leader of the Wampanoag. For the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag provided lessons in survival in the New England climate, while for the Wampanoag, the Pilgrims provided a means by which the Wampanoag reasserted themselves as a regional power. From the first, the Pilgrim settlers and the Wampanoag people found themselves engaged in a mutually beneficial, if somewhat unstable, relationship. While the central focus of Philbrick's work is the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, his narrative details how this partnership fundamentally altered the entire region. ![]() Nathaniel Philbrick's story of the Mayflower, however,goes far beyond the myth of the first Thanksgiving, exploring the complicated politics that came to dominate a world created when the arrival of English dissidents challenged the balance of power among Native American peoples. ![]() The name Mayflower often evokes images of 'wide-brimmed hats', 'buckled shoes', and a shared harvest meal. ![]()
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