I have put an interesting except online from Charles Mann's "1491: A New History of the Americas Before Columbus." It is a fascinating story about New England as the Europeans first arrived (the area was heavily populated when they got there), and features Tisquantum (also called Squanto) who figures in the Thanksgiving stories we traditionally learn in the U.S.
Anyone who is interested in this area should buy and read Mann's excellent book. In the mean time, though the excerpt is not short (but is a tiny portion of the book), I suspect we have a few here who might be interested in the tale.
It's also a good bit of research, so I am putting it in this forum It impacts the setting of some of my fantasy stories-in-progress.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNJLKs8_97huDyqtnwhi6sENexhn5aHME31thv75qQc/edit
Anyone who is interested in this area should buy and read Mann's excellent book. In the mean time, though the excerpt is not short (but is a tiny portion of the book), I suspect we have a few here who might be interested in the tale.
It's also a good bit of research, so I am putting it in this forum It impacts the setting of some of my fantasy stories-in-progress.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNJLKs8_97huDyqtnwhi6sENexhn5aHME31thv75qQc/edit
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