After being told the shots were fired in celebration of the harvest, the Wampanoags decided to stay three days to ensure the story was true, she said. Inevitably, they ended up sharing meals. The ...
Pilgrims were taught to dig and cook groundnuts by the Wampanoags, and these “Indian potatoes” probably spared the newcomers from starvation. Henry David Thoreau knew and ate the tubers. He wrote in ...