Samoset, Sagamore (Sôgmô) of Monhegan

A YouTube video from Bristol (ME) Parks & Recreation

Published April 6, 2019

Samoset is an Abenaki sôgmô (leader) whose name is often invoked at this time of harvest feasting, although his actual visit to the recently-arrived English colonists at Patuxet (later, Plymouth) was in March of 1621. He was the first Native person to meet them in person, walking directly into the village and making a deep impression upon the surprised, and probably alarmed, survivors of that first winter. The tenor of this video is rather even-handed and it seems worth sharing further.