传阅:Native Intelligence
The Indians who first feasted with the English colonists were far more sophisticated than you were taught in school. But that wasn’t enough to save them
By Charles C. Mann
Smithsonian magazine, December 2005, Subscribe
On March 22, 1621, a Native American delegation walked through what is now southern New England to meet with a group of foreigners who had taken over a recently deserted Indian settlement. At the head of the party was an uneasy triumvirate: Massasoit, the sachem (political-military leader) of the Wampanoag confederation, a loose coalition of several dozen villages that controlled most of southeastern Massachusetts; Samoset, sachem of an allied group to the north; and Tisquantum, a distrusted captive, whom Massasoit had brought along only reluctantly as an interpreter.
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