A popular living Pilgrim museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts is taking heat for the way it portrays both the European and Indigenous stories.
Phillip Messier, who portrays Myles Standish, walks through Pilgrim Village at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, formerly known as Plimoth Plantation, in Plymouth, MA on Nov. 5, 2020. Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English settlement founded by the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower.
Tim Turner, a Cherokee Indian and museum educator, sits inside a nush weetu at the Hobbamock Homesite as a group of children listen to him explain the animal skins inside at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, formerly known as Plimoth Plantation, in Plymouth,The concerns come just two years after the museum changed its name from Plimoth Plantation to Plimoth Patuxet as part of a yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing.
View of the English Village at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums, on Thanksgiving day, November 25, 2021 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Carol Pollard, whose late brother Anthony "Nanepashemet" Pollard played a key role in the development of the museum’s Indigenous programming as a leading Wampanoag historian, was among those dismayed at the state of the site.
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