After the Mayflower Photo Gallery
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On location at Pioneer Village in Salem, MA, director Chris Eyre poses with two period reenactors and a heritage breed chicken. Pioneer Village is a living history site that portrays Salem in 1630, but for WE SHALL REMAIN, the property was used as a stand-in for Plymouth colony.
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It takes a village to make a film. In the foreground, Edward Winslow (Nicholas Irons) welcomes Massasoit (Marcos Akiaten) to Plymouth for the first Thanksgiving. Overseeing the scene are: Nipmuc language consultant David White, director Chris Eyre, Native cultural consultant Cassius Spears, English cultural consultant Emerson Baker and executive producer Sharon Grimberg. More than half a dozen consultants worked with the production team to ensure accuracy for both the Native and English representations of 17th century culture.
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Language consultant David White reviews lines in the Nipmuc language with Marcos Akiaten, who plays the Wampanoag leader Massasoit. White consulted with the producers when they were writing the script and later translated lines into Nipmuc for Akiaten and the other actors.
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Director Chris Eyre directs a dramatic recreation of the first Thanksgiving at Pioneer Village in Salem, MA. In the historical record, there are only two sentences written about the first Thanksgiving, so the producers relied on the guidance of colonial historians to create a feast that included foods the Pilgrims would have eaten in 1621.
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Annawon Weeden (King Philip) and Mark Cartier (John Easton) rehearse their lines for a key scene. Dialogue for this scene comes from “A Relation Of The Indian War,” John Easton’s 1675 account of a meeting with King Philip.
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Native reenactors paddling a traditional dugout canoe on a bend of the North River in Marshfield, MA. Many people associate Native people with birchbark canoes, but the Wampanoag used fire to hollow out massive tree trunks to build their canoes.
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Annawon Weeden, who portrays King Philip, in a traditional dugout canoe on the North River in Marshfield, MA. Weeden, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, is an educator in his community and is a traditional singer and dancer.
Credit: Webb Chappell
