It may be 2008, but staff members at Plimoth Plantation’s Wampanoag Homesite regularly have to ask little boys to stop war-whooping and little girls to remove costume feathered headdresses and beaded dresses brought from home.
Visitors’ gaffes — deliberate or accidental — are not laughed off or ignored here, especially during Thanksgiving season, when 70,000 visitors are expected during the month of November. Confrontation and reeducation is a near-daily chore at one of the state’s top tourist attrac tions for many of the homesite’s approximately 15 staff members all of whom are Native American, or as they prefer to be called, Native people.
