Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This sketch depicts a meeting between Massasoit, grand sachem of the Wampanoag, and Pilgrim leader Gov. William Bradford. The pair ...

Massasoit, hearing of the gunshots, rushed to Plymouth with 90 warriors ready to do battle with invaders. Because the Wampanoag believed they were going to battle, they left their women and children ...

That decision was made by Ousamequin, more commonly known as Massasoit, which means “great sachem.” In a structure that Peters says was far closer to a democratic government than the Pilgrim ...

During the first part of the seventeenth century, the Wampanoag Confederacy controlled a large portion of what is now New England. Wampanoag territory ranged from Narragansett Bay to Cape Cod. The ...

The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" — doesn’t start in ...