Since that initial sharing, Native American food has spread around the world. Nearly 70 percent of all crops grown today were originally cultivated by Native American peoples. I sometimes wonder what they ate in Europe before they met us. Spaghetti without tomatoes? Meat and potatoes without potatoes? And at the "first Thanksgiving" the Wampanoags provided most of the food - and signed a treaty granting Pilgrims the right to the land at Plymouth, the real reason for the first Thanksgiving. —"Thanksgiving: A Native American View," Jacqueline Keeler How does Keeler use logic in this passage? Keeler uses statistics and facts to show that today’s foods come from American Indians. Keeler makes the reader imagine a world without tomatoes. Keeler uses the word “treaty,” which helps the reader feel like a truce has been made. Keeler suggests that the Pilgrims could not have survived without the American Indians.
