It’s November, and the store circulars and holiday flyers are full of familiar Thanksgiving-themed images. Happy plump Pilgrims, holding a variety of foodstuffs ranging from roast turkey to pumpkins to ears of corn, stand alongside pink-cheeked Native Americans, ready to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in the bountiful New World. The reality, of course, was much different.
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