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Native Americans urge boycott of ‘tone deaf’ Pilgrim museum

HOLD FOR STORY BY PHIL MARCELO— Visitors walk through the 17th-Century English Village exhibit at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums on Nov. 18, 2018, in Plymouth, Mass. Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English settlement founded by Pilgrims arriving on the Mayflower. They say the Plimoth Patuxet museum hasn't lived up to its mandate to create a "bi-cultural museum" telling equally the stories of the European and indigenous communities. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Alyssa Harris, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoags and a museum educator at Plimoth Patuxet Museums sits in a corn watch tower as visitors walk through the Wampanoag Homesite living history exhibit, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Plymouth, Mass. Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English settlement founded by Pilgrims arriving on the Mayflower. They say the Plimoth Patuxet museum hasn't lived up to its mandate to create a "bi-cultural museum" telling equally the stories of the European and indigenous communities. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) Mashpee Wampanoag Kerri Helme, of Fairhaven, Mass., uses plant fiber to weave a basket while sitting next to a fire on November 15, 2018, at the Wampanoag Homesite at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums, in Plymouth, Mass. Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English settlement founded by Pilgrims arriving on the Mayflower. They say the Plimoth Patuxet museum hasn't lived up to its mandate to create a "bi-cultural museum" telling equally the stories of the European and indigenous communities. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)