This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

I've known that the common retelling of the 'First Thanksgiving' has been fiction for a long time now, but the extent to which it's a fairly recent fiction and holiday (6 generations maybe) ,and how thoroughly incorrect the standard notion what the southern new England indigenous population relationships with Europeans is still pretty staggering to read about.

I initially read this book because it was about the Thanksgiving holiday, but it actually has very little about said holiday in it... which is entirely the point.

I was already aware of the Thanksgiving myth and the overall issues surrounding it, but apparently very few of the historical details. While occasionally getting bogged down in names, and sometimes confusingly jumping from one time period to another, the book provided me with much needed context to better understand why Thanksgiving is problematic.

Even to one who stopped believing in the Thanksgiving myth long ago, the book was still both eye-opening and heartbreaking.