Journals of Discovery

This was a picture that I found on the Internet when i searched the First Thanksgiving. It shows the Pilgrims and Indians eating together in harmony. There are foods such as pumpkins, corn, squash, and wheat. Most of the food that is shown in the picture would be accurate. In Of Plymouth Plantation the food that Squanto helped the Pilgrims to hunt or catch was turkey, venison, and fish. Squanto also taught the Pilgrims about Indian corn. Never in Of Plymouth Plantation did it talk about squash and pumpkins but these could have been used just not mentioned. This picture shows the Natives eating with the Pilgrims. It does not talk about this in Of Plymouth Plantation. Indians were only mentioned a few times in the journal. The Pilgrims made peace with the Indians but the only Indian that they came in contact with on a daily basis was Squanto and he was with them everyday until he died. 

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Native American Culture

In class we watched a video about the Cahokia mounds in Saint Louis, Missouri. This video was very interesting to me. The mounds are large in size and must have taken a lot of work. All of this work was done by human labor. This seems like it should have taken a long time but in reality it did not take the Native Americans that long. The mounds were used as burials or places for ceremonies. The mounds show that the Native Americans were very intelligent. The mounds also showed that the Native Americans knew how to work with the land. In the video the man talked about how the Native Americans used different types of soil on different parts of the mounds. That shows their knowledge of the Earth. Overall the video was very interesting and the mounds are magnificent works done by the Native Americans.

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