Ashley

The year is 1620. Hello, my name is Little Fox. The Pilgrims landed a few days ago. You might be wondering how I know this? So I'll tell you.

Massoiet gathered us (the whole tribe) to the center of our village. One of the men saw a very unusual boat. His name is Malla (mall-a), he is also my best friend. He also was hunting where all the men were but he was the only man that saw it (he was in the woods though) he said it was a strange looking thing, he wasn't sure what it was. After he saw a couple people leave the strange thing he described it like a huge log carved out and a other couple logs atached. A couple days later I woke up, a slight chill in the air, our fire (my families) in the wetu had burnt out so we didn't get any heat. It was a cold day but my mom and dad wouldn't let me stay in the wetu all day so they made me do my chores. My mother Ramba was running low on dye so she made me pick what was left of the fresh berries and my father had to go out and hunt a few buffalo for the fur and the bones. Massoiet, his wife, and 90 other men went to go and try to figure out who was on our ground but my father was not one of those 90 men he was one of the ten to protect the village. He was sad because he wanted to know who was on our land, but he had to do his job and that was what he was going to do and he is sticking to it.

Two days pasted, everyone gathered in the middle of the village (because Massaoiet told everyone by the second day to do that) Massoiet and his wife came out and then the 90 other men. Massoiet said, " Pack everything we made new friends". Then two white men walked out covered head to toe in strang clothes and they also spoke a strang languge. So Massaoiet had to translate for us and the men where saying come and meet the few of us that still live then they counted us (the kids). Then said we have nine kids that you kids can play with. Then everyone packed up and headed off, this was the first time I was nervous. We walked for a while then we all (the whole tribe) were really thirsty then it was a merical a river. After everyone got a drink we started of walking it was getting dark so Massoiet said, "Start getting your blankets and beds ready beacause it is too dark to walk further". When I woke up ten other families where already packing up for the long day ahead of us. I asked if I coud get my game or if I could play blind mans bluff with the other kids. I had jerky (dry meat) for breakfeast. It was deer that took forever to make. It took 6 to 9 months. But it is always worth waiting for. After half an hour everyone was wake and had breakfeast so we started off to see the new people. After about half a day we finnal got to meet the white people. I was so happy when I got a good glance of there homes we staied for a couple of days. We stayed for a week because we helped build there houses and showed how to farm and make outfits.

A couple weeks passed. When I woke up, my father, Tekiewaka said, "It's fall and we should be getting our plan into action.

I asked, "What plan?"

He said, "The big feast for the Pilgrims.

So my father told me what Massoiet said to the white people. "Massioet said head to our village in three days." Then father commented that hopefully they headed out today. So we gathered food for weeks for this big feast. But Massioet made a couple men stay with the Pilgrims. My mother was very busy for a couple of weeks and my father was busy too because he had to hunt with all the other men. Then the week was over now and I saw the Pilgrims coming and I told Massioet that the Pilgrims were a day early so Massioet said to a couple of parents to stall the Pilgrims. (so we could finsh the feast).

Then about an hour later we were done getting everything done. Then Massioet sent a couple of kids to get the Pilgrms and parents. When the Pilgrims came back and were so suprised. We started eating and the Pilgrims and the whole village ate for three days straight. On the fourth day after the Pilgrims left I layed on my bed and said, "I'm so full!"