Overall I thought the writers of the Mayflower movie "Desperate Crossing" did an excellent and accurate job of telling the story from both the Pilgrims prospective and that of the Native tribes. However,I would have liked to have seen more than what was given on the Native peoples point of view and background. Speaking of the native peoples,one small detail in the film I found that was probably inaccurate was some of the Native men were shown bare chested in the middle of winter! Why did the writers of the movie not show them wearing animal furs as they would have been wearing in the frigid tempatures of a New England winter? Was it to perpetuate the stereotype of the rugged savage? If the Natives ran around in the dead of winter bare chested they would have died from exposure long before the Eurpeans brought diseases to them! (I'm a native of Vermont so I know personally how brutally cold New England winters are.)While I'm on the subject of attire I was pleased to see the Pilgrims not wearing the black and white clothing that they were always portrayed wearing back in my school days (1960's and 70's). I have done much reading and research on the Pilgrims since discovering that I descended from 4 who were on the Mayflower (Francis Cooke & his son John,George Soule and Richard Warren) and several persons who came to Plymouth shortly afterwards (Hester Cooke,daughter of Francis and her husband Richard Wright.and Rebecca Symonson/Simmons daughter of Moses Symonson/Simmons. I've also been to Plimouth Plantation and aboard the Maflower II which stirred up many emotions in me including admiration for all that my ancestors went through and the courage that it took to bring them across the Atlantic. This movie brought back the same feelings to me. I also have Mohican ancestry. ( The Mohicans were originally from New York state and up into the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont.By the Revolutionary War my Mohican ancestors were living in western Massachusetts in Stockbridge. Eventually they were sent to Michigan to live on a reservation with another tribe where many still reside today. My ancestor however,moved from Stockbridge to northern Vermont after the Revolutionary War. So much for the myth of another movie "The Last of the Mohicans".) But back to the Pilgrims and the Wampanopg (spelling?) tirbe....I noticed several people mentioned about the Pilgrims digging up native graves and robbing them. I had read about their having taken some corn they'd dug up and about their uncovering the graves of some natives and of a European man.I'd read they took things from the European man's grave but not from the native graves out of respect. However I also vaguely recall reading somewhere that they did take goods from Native houses because they thought the natives had abandoned these goods when in fact the Natives had only left them in their summer homes and gone to their winter lodgings. They had not abandoned these things but wee planning on returning in the spring.What a shock to them upon their return to find their homes had been ransacked and their supply of corn stolen! I can't find the source I read this in at the moment but I know it was taken from one of the Pilgrims own accounts. Does anyone know which Pilgrim wrote this? Noreen Maloney LaTour Burlington,Vermont