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From Wondery, I'm Lindsay Graham, and this is American History Tellers, Our History, Your Story.

Thank you. And this is American history tellers, our history, your story. In our series on the Mayflower, we traveled with a group of desperate religious dissidents

as they sailed from England to the Netherlands and then to Plymouth in what would eventually

become known as New England. But it wasn't called that by the people who lived there at the time,

the Wampanox. They knew the place where the pilgrims settled as Patuxet, and much to the

surprise of the newly arrived English colonists, they had prior experience with Europeans.

In this episode I speak with David Silverman, a professor of history at George Washington University.

He's the author of This Land is Their Land, the Wampanog Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled

history of Thanksgiving. David will take us back to 1620 to imagine what the encounter

with the Pilgrims might have been like from the Wampanog perspective. Our conversation is next.

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