After signing the treaty, Governor Carver ordered food and drinks served, and Massasoit reportedly enjoyed the English ...

What can we Christians be thankful for?If it hadn’t been for Squanto, probably every one of the original Pilgrims would have died. That first harvest celebration was a time of being thankful ...

So, Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. They diverged in the early 1600s, but wound up 70 years later being one and the same in the New World.

The fragile colony survived only with the assistance of Native Americans – most famously Squanto. To commemorate, not celebrate, their survival, Pilgrims joined Native Americans in a grand meal during ...

Lipman describes Squanto’s afterlife in popular culture and gives a brisk history of the evolution of Thanksgiving from its fairly insignificant origin to its later association with the Pilgrims ...

Only Squanto was immortalized in the Pilgrim story. But perhaps the best starting point, according to Peters and other historians, is 1616, when a lethal pandemic tore through many Wampanoag villages.

So the Wampanoag, largely with the help of interpretation by Tisquantum, also known as "Squanto," taught the Pilgrims to plant beans and squash with maize around it, using fish remains as fertilizer.

Native American history, a subject honored this month, has been revised and distorted for centuries. The story of Squanto, the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving is a prime example. Lipman’s ...

Without Squanto's help as an interpreter, negotiator, and agricultural advisor, the Mayflower Pilgrims may not have survived their early years at Plymouth. Getty Images After the Mayflower landed in ...