Squanto

Squanto was a Patuxet man who assisted the Pilgrims following their first winter in the New World in 1620.Mayflower History: Biography of Tisquantum

Tisquantum was brought to England as a slave in roughly 1605, and entered into a peculiar series of liberations and recaptures, and of journeys back and forth to North America, before returning to his village in 1619 and finding that it had been wiped out by the historic smallpox pandemic that killed roughly 90% of the region's Native Americans.Roots Web: Squanto James Madison University: The Wampanoag

Squanto then joined a Wampanoag Tribe settlement, and was called upon to help deal with the newly-arrived Pilgrims by Samoset, an Abenaki visiting from what is now Maine, and who himself spoke some English. Because Squanto spoke even better English than Samoset, he negotiated a peace treated with the Pilgrims. Squanto spent over a year with the Pilgrims, teaching them about local resources, fishing and how to cultivate and farm the land.Mayflower History: Biography of Tisquantum

In 1622, Squanto died from Indian fever while on a fishing expedition with a neighboring tribe.NativeAmericans.com: Squanto

• History News Network: Richard B. Speed: Review of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, (Viking, 2006)

• IMDb: Squanto: A Warriors Tale (1994)

• The Baldwin Project: Squanto

• Joyful Heart: Squanto--God's Special Indian a Thanksgiving Story

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