England: Penguin, 1986), 37, regarding Plymouth Rock. See also Michael
Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991),
207-10.
73 Valerian Paget, introduction to Bradford’s History of the Plymouth
Settlement, 1608-1650 (New York: McBride, 1909), xvii.
74 Dorris, “Why I’m Not Thankful for Thanksgiving,” 9. The addition is mine,
in the interest of accuracy.
75 Plimoth Plantation, “The American Thanksgiving Tradition, or How
Thanksgiving Stole the Pilgrims” (Plymouth, MA: n.d., photocopy); Stoddard,
The Truth about the Pilgrims, 13. Jeremy D. Bangs, “Thanksgiving on the Net:
Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce Part 1,” Society of Mayflower Descendants
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Web page,
sail1620.org/discover_feature_thanksgiving_on_the_net_roast_bull_with_cranberry_sauce_part_l.shtml
1/2007.
76 Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1981), 5.
77 Arlene Hirshfelder and Jane Califf, “Celebration or Mourning? It’s All in
the Point of View” (New York: Council on Interracial Books for Children
Bulletin 10, no. 6, 1979), 9.
78 Frank James, “Frank James’ Speech” (New York: Council on Interracial
Books for Children Bulletin 10, no. 6, 1979), 13.
79 Willison, Saints and Strangers; Salisbury, Manitou and Providence, 114-
17; Wright, The Only Land They Knew, 220. Salisbury, Manitou and
Providence, 120-25, tells of the militaristic and coercive nature of Plymouth’s
dealings with the Indians, however, right from the first.