Just Sayin'

Just sayin': if I were an indigenous person I'd be rolling  my eyes heavenward and getting mad all over again about the wrong-headed versions of what went down in the fall of 1621. Also, check this out: Half the people who came over on the Mayflower died within the first year. 'Course ALL the people who lived in the settlement called Patuxet died a few years before that - of the Plague brought over by You-Know-Who, the Big-eyed, Big-nosed White Man as the Chinese once called our enlightened emissaries to the Eastern kingdoms.Squanto (real name Tisquantum ) was kidnapped by the English in 1614 and by the time he made his way back seven years later it was to find his whole village wiped out by this  plague and full of people from England and Holland.I learned all this visiting this amazing place Plimoth Plantation which I wrote about in this week's column - and by the way kudos to the historical impersonators like this lad, and this young woman.The people to really see? the actual Wampanoags who are good enough to share their time explaining the ancient arts.