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Americans ‐ Thanksgiving, Visitor Interviews, March 2014

Date Time Gender # in group

Compared to most other people, how much do you know about Native American history? Low, medium or relatively high knowledge?

Have you been to this museum before?

Where do you live? Are you able to read this text?

Are you able to understand this text?

Do you know what it is in reference to?

Prompt visitor with connection to Thanksgiving. What is your reaction?

What other things to you associate with the time period of the first Thanksgiving?

What comes to mind for the following words: Wampanoag?

What comes to mind for the following words: King Phillips

War?

What comes to mind for the following words: Squanto?

What comes to mind for the following words: Plymouth?

The last word to provide is the word Thanksgiving

3/9/2014 2:10 F 2 medium no GA y y Thanksgiving surprising b/c of what is learned in grade school and aquired in mythology rape and pillaging ‐ education as a child and education at University were very different from "white washed history" tribe nothing first thanksgiving ‐ taught how to farm with fish and grow crops, saved pilgrims from dying MA, where settlers landed food

3/9/2014 2:10 M 2 relatively high yes AL y y Thanksgiving not surprising, have some prior knowledge survived; terrible miscalculation of Massasoit and others and could have just get settlers die food? nothing nothing rock turkey

3/9/2014 1:55 M 2 low no CA n n Indian feast cool indians helped settlers how to get plants no nothing heard of him ‐ indian that got taken to other side of world and fought his way back car, rock turkey and eating too much

3/9/2014 1:41 6 medium no MD y y n awesome piece of history hunting and gathering/N.A and Europeans getting together no power not sure harbor family, gathering

3/9/2014 1:35 F 2 medium no VA y y gathering celebration interesting no not sure getting a history lesson vaguely familiar rock, landing American

3/9/2014 12:50 M 5 medium no PA y y hunting fowl and deer hard to believe someone wrote it tough life, surviving no nothing no, was he an Indian? MA celebration of harvest

3/9/2014 1:18 M 5 no CT y y people meeting I can read text, would like to see original script out of kindness from NA NE Region betrayl don't know much, heard his name before rock great fullness, celebration

3/9/2014 5 relatively high no MA y y Thanksgiving prior knowledge, not surprising what is the real truth of the story?

Was it peachful or not? Innocence before the slaughter, Indians being generous before they knew what was going to happen familiar‐ slow turtle, tribe of the people who gave food to pilgrims I forget

He was a slave, brought to England and then served as a translator between English and Wampanoag one of the original Pilgram settlements famil, ood, gratitude, remembering the story of Thanksgiving

3/9/2014 1:12 M 5 low yes VA Y y men killing deer, feast cool good no war no not really feel happy to have a nice feast

3/8/2014 11:57 F 2 low no NJ y y attack, wait it looks like Thanksgiving very interesting what weather was like ‐ time of Pilgrams and coming over and taking over from NA nothing nothing nothing landing of Pilgrims

1st meal of Pilgrims in the wintertime

3/8/2014 12:00 M 2 medium no NJ y y feast, Thanksgivin not surprising time when Indians and settlers peacefully coexisted, rough life, grateful for harvest, thankful not familiar know the name, but nothing more familiar but forget MA, rock, Quakers people getting together to give thanks

3/8/2014 11:35 M 2 relatively high yes IL y y Pilgrims could believe that it is in reference to Thanksgiving

Pilgraims, time when Europeans and Indians getting along money not familiar Indian, remember but not exactly rock american tradition, family, good food

3/8/2014 11:05 F 3 medium no PA y n n makes sense that they probably didn't write everything down when Europeans came to AM and settled and kicked Indians off the land, but then they became friends and had unity some kind of beaded thing no idea one of the indians, maybe a chief, helped somebody wehre europeans settled in MA, first settlement togetherness, brother, family, friends

3/8/2014 11:05 F 3 medium yes MD y some n it sounds like they wanted to be friends and share with the pilgrims pilgrims weren't very nice people, what we learn is different that what actually happened to I ttry to read as much as I can ; the more I learn about my ancestors, the less I like them;grew up in RI, know about Massasoit, My mother told me we have a lot of history but she didn't tell us anything. There is a place near our home but she would never take us there. She would always say "it's nothing." But I know something happened there. A lot of people died there, they were slaugtered. I can't remember what it was, but soemthing happened.

wampum is money, but not word with that ending that's the one; they slaugtered them traded north, could speak English rock giving thanks for what we have

3/8/2014 10:55 F 2 medium no TX y y feeding people; Indians teaching people they were right; it’s the pilgrims, like learning about Am history didn't eat turkey, ate lobster b/c fish is more prominent, Pilgrims and Indians, worked together peacefully, Indians not yet subject to disease wampum,money, beads don't know chief of tribe, was he the father of sacajawea? rock, where English settled family, celebration, eating, thankful

3/8/2014 10:45 M 1 low no Canada y y n sounds right don't know no no no rock celebration, turkey, dinners

3/8/2014 10:43 M 2 low no TX y y indians helping pilgrims new; I'm not originally from here I knew about Europe; French no idea magna carta 1625; King John/King Philip; uprising against him;

Houston Science Museum nothing MA, England, car national holiday, 3rd Thursday, non religious

3/8/2014 10:20 F 2 low no NC y y n intersting not really, I'm only 14 not exactly sure no idea sounds familiar crazy familiar farming, harvesting fall

3/8/2014 10:20 M 2 low no SC y y n surprising pilgrims, indian, corn nothing nothing nothing rock family, being thankful, being home

3/7/2014 1:20 M 3 medium no IL y y y may relate not what people were taught indian tribe in midwest rings a bell, not sure Indian name well known settlement, near Roanoke VA mixed, not traditional US Thanksgiving

3/7/2014 12:25 M 2 relatively high no CA y y

1st thanksgiving; show both documents but use modern version, don't dumb down;

Massasoit child this is English perspective, tries to show conviviality place name Indians and Spainards

He was able to speak English and part of shaping our country then because of the bridge he built palce in England and new Plymouth, named b/c the Pilgrims left from there and named landing only national holiday without religious overtones

3/7/2014 2 low no TN y y general feasting not surprising turkey, side dishes they harvested; no no no site of 1st thanksgiving, where Pilgrams landed family, give thanks

3/7/2014 1:00 M 2 medium no OR y y n it fits nothing nothing nothing Pilgrims landed

3/7/2014 11:14 F 4 medium no MD y y some kind of feast, how many animals they killed serving food, first thanksgiving NA tribe no native american that helped them have a successful harvest place where Pilgrims settled food, thankfulness, lots of people, talking, family

3/7/2014 11:26 M 1 relatively high no MA y y y first thanksgiving primitive, plimoth plantation (have been there), no big frost, family history indians of CT stockage in Springfield, MA, Massasoit killed the next year son of King Phillip name from England, they used the name again when they got here end of year, harvest, over‐rated holiday, 2‐3 years later they cut of Phillips head, comraderie is a misconception, they didn't get along

3/7/2014 11:47 F 7 low yes VA y, appreciates the original n Thanksgiving nice to read authentic words, more interesting, not surprising, what expected corn, squash, common table nothing some Indian Am history no MA, England food, family

3/7/2014 12:02 F 5 relatively high no WA y y ceremony, greetings, celebration thanksgivng, supports what they expect corns, bean, squash, natives, whites, culture clash tribe name or river name head of it, part of French and Indian war?

native who helped Pilgrims grow crops rock, Pilgrims settlement food, family

3/7/2014 2:50 F 3 low yes WI Y y y intersting pilgrims, feast nothing nothing familiar familiar favorite holiday, loves preparing food for guests, first harvest must have been different

3/7/2014 2:20 F 4 low no Scotland y y n harvest time; it's a company getting together of families nothing nothing nothing nothing getting together of families

3/7/2014 2:30 F 2 relatively high yes MD y mostly plymouth you'd think there'd be more tribe associated with 1st thanksgiving huge conflict, native americans and colonists in MA; deadliest war based on population; some historians assoc with later witch trials spoke english; served as a guide 2nd permanent colony feast

3/7/2014 2:40 M 2 medium yes VT y y really! tribe no native american helper guy settlement 3/7/2014 2:40 F 2 medium no VT y y surprised it's only one pilgrims, not jamestown might be a tribe, a gues not at all yes, guide rock getting together

3/7/2014 2:40 F 5 medium no SC y y Thanksgiving surprised it's the only description settling, explorations, indians tried to be helpful was it a war against indians? rock family

3/7/2014 2:10 M 2 medium no MA y y n that's great irish visitor, no responses american holiday

3/6/2014 3:55 M 2 low no NC y n n see a feast pilgrims and native americans no no seems familiar rock, where Pilgrims first arrived family, boring, hassle

3/6/2014 3:55 F 3 low no NC y y when English came to Americas could be hats and buckles, pilgrims, native americans no no no town, Va?

people, families coming together, lots of food

3/6/2014 2:15 F 1 low yes MD y y n didn't occur to me, but see it now true coming together between Native Americans and Europe/celebration, sitting at the same table no no TV, eastern part of country rock, first thanksgiving was there?

sitting at table together, giving thanks, non religious

3/6/2014 2:45 M 2 low yes NC y y, take more than needed, white men went out to get as much food as possible, Indians took what they needed n thought it was made up contemporary, not sure no no, King Phillip ‐ was he English? no rock, first thanksgiving, don't really think there was a first thanksgiving comfortable memory

3/6/2014 2:50 F 3 no France y n n don't know about American history thought it was a fall time/harvest celebration no no no no

3/6/2014 3:15 F medium no CA y y Thanksgiving killed food to serve weak food, Nam bread no no rock

3/6/2014 3:10 M 3 medium no CA y n n could be, don't know no no no rock modern holiday, not sure about its history

3/6/2014 3:15 M 2 medium no US South y y Thanksgiving it's obvious south, hunting, fresh, boys get to go with men no war with Brits indian guide lived with Pilgrims rock where Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria landed

3/6/2014 3:20 F 2 no US South y y Thanksgiving I thought it was thanksgiving when I read it family, Indians, Spanish and British meeting no no no rock, Pilgrims grand meal, big gathering, food

3/6/2014 2:30 F 2 low yes NC y y but language obscured some words sounded too peaceful, I thought 1st thanksgiving has some tension around it no no no rock, Pilgrims landed

3/6/2014 M 1 relatively high no IN y y n it fits into food, cook, leader native american explicting helping out white, missing no no, native?

she was east coast, Jamestown, daughter of chief spainard/columbus/rock jamestown