Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story health In Sand Talk

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and co-author of The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen

Meeting over several years in long-weekend gatherings

defending Indian mythology as the more truthful account of the history of the earth

Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story health In Sand TalkIn this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition, two kids from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe learn the story of Weechumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving story that most Americans know celebrates the Pilgrims. But without members of the Wampanoag tribe who already lived on the land where the Pilgrims settled, the Pilgrims would never have made it through their first winter. And without Weechumun (corn), the Native people wouldn't