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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Corbitant was very opposed to the Indians' peace with the Pilgrims, and actively sought to undermine Massasoit's power by allying with the Narragansett in an attempt to overthrow him.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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There were several Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who visited India for several centuries and they had left contemporary accounts of the Indian scene.
The Pilgrims and the Indians celebrated the abundance they derived from a peaceful sharing of the knowledge and ways from each culture.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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The Pilgrims started telling their Indian neighbors that their Indian religion and Indian customs were wrong.
Indian Chief Massosoit and Squanto try to convince their Indian Brothers that the Indians and the Pilgrims can live peaceably.
The Wampanoag Indians were very good to their unexpected guests – and the Pilgrims believed that they should themselves BE good guests – and so the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims made a peace treaty that lasted over half a century.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The Pilgrims of New England had their first hostile encounter with the Nausite Indian tribe whose arrows were tipped with horn, eagle claws and brass.
Some American Indians still send pilgrims to gather the cactus in the fields, but most tribal groups in the United States must procure their supplies by purchase and mail.
Native American Indians used pumpkin as a staple in their diets centuries before the pilgrims landed.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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The Pilgrims decided to have a feast and the Pilgrims invited the Indians to the feast.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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These Indians opened their hearts and welcomed a new people, the Pilgrims, not knowing the consequences that this would bring for them or their descendants.
Pilgrims - One of the first immigrants to the New World, they owed much of there survival to Indians and were against England because of religious persecution.
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