How Thanksgiving is Also a Day of Mourning

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  1. 3. In fact, ________ of the Mayflower passengers died within the first year.
  2. 5. With more knowledge of history, though, that story [of the first Thanksgiving] looks ___________.
  3. 7. For other Americans, the holiday is instead a reminder of _______________ and a day of mourning.
  4. 9. By 1615, the Wampanoag were dying from an epidemic of an illness that we now know was carried to them by ________ on those trading ships.
  5. 11. Now, hundreds of people gather each year at Plymouth Rock to talk about the Thanksgiving story from the ________ of Native communities.
  6. 12. They hope that one day the full history of Thanksgiving will be widely acknowledged—and ____________.
Down
  1. 1. [Native People] want their fellow Americans to understand the _____ story of how they were treated on the land that was theirs long before Europeans arrived.
  2. 2. But then warfare broke out between the _________.
  3. 4. Those people, known as Pilgrims, came seeking _____________ and believing the land was theirs to take.
  4. 5. The traders also brought _________ that was new to the Wampanoag so their bodies did not know how to fight it.
  5. 6. The _____________ people had lived in present-day Massachusetts for centuries.
  6. 8. Some traders kidnapped Natives and sold them into ______________.
  7. 10. After a harsh winter, some Wampanoag tribe members _________ the Pilgrims' harvest feast and celebration.