How did it happen that the pilgrims spent their first winter in a native american village?

The pilgrims spent their first winter in a native american village because the village was empty because it's original inhabitants had died of disease.

The Pilgrims constituted a number of people, roughly 100 who were seeking for religious freedom in the New World, so that they set sail from England on the Mayflower in September 1620. They landed at Plymouth Harbor, where theycreated the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England.

Apparently the answer is The village was empty because its original inhabitants had died of disease.