Massasoit~

As we Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving Day (the fourth Thursday of November) which commemorates the first feast by Pilgrims who settled in America from England. The chief of the Wampanoag Indians, Massasoit, greeted the settlers and a treaty of friendship was completed whereby both parties agreed to abstain from mutual injuries. This was sacredly kept for 54 years.

Massasoit was known to be humane and honest, never violated his word and imbued his people with a love of peace. His tribe aided the Pilgrims with their first harvest and helped them survive their first winters in the New World~

"What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?"
~ Massasoit

*I feel so blessed to live only 20 minutes from Plymouth...the Mayflower, Plymouth Rock and Plymouth Plantation...such a legacy!