Nanepashemet interview at Plimoth Plantation - Part 1

Nanepashemet interview at Plimoth Plantation with Jack Dempsey, Winter 1990, Part 1 includes: introduction; population, epidemics, and changes 1616-1618; how epidemics affected Native tribes and relations with colonists; why Massasoit aligned with Plimoth Plantation; Narragansett-Wampanoag rivalries; territorial rights and intermarriages, kinship bonds; lack of colonial intermarriage; contrasts between Thomas Morton's and Plimoth's Native relations; how Thomas Morton began Merrymount; why Plimoth built its stockade 1622-23; Morton's and Neponset Massachusetts' fur and gun trade. More info at http://ancientlights.org .

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Education

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• early America
• history
• Massachusetts
• Nanepashemet
• Native American
• Plimoth Plantation

[BisonTurdjoy]

Thanks for uploading these and thanks for the ancientlights site--it's so awesome and I'm grateful for all the information I find there.