American Experience — Episode 5: We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower

You are watching the episode We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down to negotiate with a ragged group of English colonists. Hungry, dirty, and sick, the pale-skinned foreigners were struggling to stay alive; they were in desperate need of Native help.