March 22

Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, signed a treaty with the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony on the 22nd in 1621. The Pilgrims honored this treaty in the same manner that future treaties between the first Americans and European interlopers were honored. This is to say that was not honored by the Europeans at all. I can only imagine how differently the history of the Western hemisphere would be if the Wampanoags had a Patriot Act and operated with the same sense of dogged determination that our Office of Homeland Security does.