I reading Mayflower:A Story of Courage, Community, and War By Nathaniel Philbrick, and at this time I am at the second year of the settlement of Plymouth in the book.

The bad feelings started as soon as the Pilgrams set foot on Cape Cod. They robbed the natives supply of stored corn and robbed graves on the first or second day. They were able to secure friendship with one tribe that was being threatened by a larger tribe in the area by making a military alliance. They made threats against other tribes and kept them in check by taking the offensive several times but only as a show of force. Bloodshed would come the second year.

It was Miles Standish who tricked several leaders of the Massachusetts Indians into a trap and killed them, in support of his indian allies from a competing tribe. This was to foil a rumored plot to destroy Plymouth and the second settlement at Wessagusset. Standish and other pilgrams invited the indians to a dinner, where at the right moment, Standish took the sachems (chief) own knife and stabbed him to death, and the other pilgrams killed his entourage. The Standish removed the head of the sachem, took it to Plymouth fort and mounted it on a tall pole for all indians to see.

None of this shows up in the traditional Thanksgiving story.

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David Upton