Series: American Experience
Season: Season 21
Episode Number: 5
Air Date:
Duration: 55 min
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.
Sharon Grimberg
Writer
Chris Eyre
Director
William Belleau
Wampanoag man
Benjamin Bratt
Narrator
Tonantzin Carmelo
Awashunk
Mark S. Cartier
John Easton
William Joseph Elk III
Wampanoag man
Nicholas Irons
Edward Winslow
Zahn McClarnon
Wampanoag man
Tatanka Means
Nookau
Wes Studi
Warrior in Canoe
Lewis D. Wheeler
Stephen Hopkins