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The English settlers and their one-time Wampanoag allies became e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in a devastating war just a generation after the famous feast.

As the story goes, friendly local Native Americans s_ _ _ _ __ in to teach the struggling colonists how to survive in the New World

A_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ included at least 90 men from the Wampanoag tribe and the 50 or so surviving Mayflower passengers.

In reality, Thanksgiving feasts p _ _ _ _ _ _ Plymouth. That is, has its traditions before.

The e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ holiday has also nearly erased from our collective memory what happened between the Wampanoag and the English a generation later.

Massosoit, the s_ _ _ _ _ or paramount chief of the Wampanoag, proved to be a crucial ally to the English settlers in the years following the establishment of Plymouth.

Thousands of English colonists p_ _ _ _ _ _ into the region throughout the 17th century.

Colonists in far f_ _ _ _ settlements relocated to more fortified areas.

Popular memory has largely clung to the i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ image of a harvest celebration.