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This toddler book describes a Christian-focused, historically inaccurate (for starters, the Pilgrims did not eat potatoes), White-washed version of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving. Egregiously, Squanto, also known as Tisquantum (who was sold into slavery by White people and only managed to return to his homeland to discover his entire village had died of smallpox contracted from White settlers), is described in this book as "coming to visit" to "help the Pilgrims." A more accurate version would be that the Pilgrims had robbed the local Native people because they sucked at farming and were starving and didn't care about the Natives, and Tisquantum helped convince the local Wampanoag tribe to form an alliance with the Pilgrims and teach them how to farm rather than murder them all. I guess the toddler version of that would be, "the Pilgrims had a bad crop and stole the Native people's seeds because they were starving. That was wrong and a sin. Tisquantum helped the Natives make peace with the Pilgrims and taught them how to grow food."
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