We Shall Remain Chapter Summary

Watching We Shall Remain Episode #1: After the Mayflower, was a very interesting experience. Unlike reading the text book watching We Shall Remain allowed me to connect to the stories of the people in a way that I was not able to by simply reading the textbook . When I first saw the episode I was very surprised that is was so different than what I had been reading in the textbook. While the book gave a wide view of what happened after pilgrims came to America, We shall remain, gave me an in depth view of the Wampanoag people and their relationship with the Englishmen. In the beginning of the video there’s this moment when two men are standing on the ocean and they see an oncoming. In the time that follows there’s this tense few seconds where
The people who had to keep themselves in “God’s Light” were the same people who considered murdering an innocent child simply because they considered his father a traitor. This was a very shocking thing to learn because these people that are celebrated as the people who founded our country are the same people who killed and destroyed the villages of people who had lived there thousands of years before. It’s hard to learn as well because of who I am as a person. Being a Christian myself it’s definitely hard to learn about others who are supposed to believe the same things as you doing things that you wouldn’t dream. I would view a whole village getting sick and dying as people who need help and it’s our job as Christians to help. Instead, the puritans saw it as the land being given to them by God. Another distressing realization I had during the film was that the settlers where doing the same thing they had left their countries to avoid. The puritans where persecuting the Native Americans because of their beliefs, forcing them to convert to other religions, the very thing the puritans were