Hear from thell Plimoth Patuxet deputy executive director Richard Pickering told and about the origins of the mayflower compact. I Plimoth Patuxet deputy am executive director Richard Pickering. Themter by the name gives the name pilgrim fathers. They are still called this today. We as americans tend to call them pilgrims. The reason that this is cited is because William Bradford refers to them as pilgrims. Pilgrims,p but lowercase. We need to remember that they did not have a group identity. They were a heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how do people sound in colonial england. The first few ships that will follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plaintiff they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely did you hear anybody speak english other than your own dialect or accent. Begine what it is like to aboard a ship we are trying to figure out what is she saying to be echo we are accustomed to watching tel
Today. Are still here today is going to do wampanoag is a culture of people. Different,wampanoag it could be language. It could be diet. It could be the housing we lived in. How we think about life in general. Human life, plant life, animal life. We do not put ourselves above. I do a lot of teaching, right . Race do wee, what come from . The human race. We should all respect each other. We have been here for 12,000 years. Wife,s me and my lovely who teaches language. I am going to bring you to a major1613, before any interruption in our culture. I will bring you to our new years. A lot of peoples new years starts january 1. Our new year starts when everything comes to life. When does everything come to life . Springtime. That is when the birds start chirping. Is new again. Earth, thether creator. We do a lot of dancing. We do a lot of feasting. We do a lot of socializing. Once that happens, we know we have to get to work. These are the houses we live in during the summertime. We live i
Them pilgrims. The reason the word is cited is that William Bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry referred to them as pilgrims. Not uppercase, big p, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on a journey for religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard ship with people that you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Because
Religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. So that use of the word pilgrims gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth that plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard a ship with people, you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Accustomed to are watching television to get our news, to have a newscasters accent. We are accustomed to hearing people speak differently than ourselves. Wasnt always the case back in the 1600s. There are Vocabulary Words and
Ok . Do today i am going to is like, wampanoag is a culture of people. One out of over 1000 indigenous cultures going across north america. What makes wampanoag different, from the other 1000, it could be language. It could be diet. It could be the housing we lived in. One common bond we all have is how we think about life in general. We respect all forms of life. Be it human life, plant life, animal life. We do not put ourselves above or below that. That is one thing we have all in common. I do a lot of teaching, right . I ask people, what race do we come from . The human race. Right . So we should all respect each other. And that his rule of thumb for my people. Like i said, we have been here for 12,000 years. That is me up there, my lovely wife, who teaches language. Also right next to me. What i am going to do is im going to bring you to a year, 1613, before any major interruption in our culture. Ok . I am going to bring you to our new years. You think about our new years, a lot of