Squanto, it was decided, would stay to help these gentle people. ... The Pilgrims may have felt a twinge of despair to realize their food stores would be greatly reduced, ...

Though there are varying versions of Squanto's story, historians seem to agree that prior to the pilgrims' settling in 1620, Squanto was captured by English explorers in 1614 and sold into slavery ...

Squanto's role in Pilgrims' survival Pat Tafra Tisquantum, more commonly known as Squanto, c.1585 to late November 1622, was a member of the Patuxet tribe, a Native American band of the Wampanoag ...

Squanto’s life was brief and eventful. Born near the end of the 16th century, he grew up in the coastal New England village of Patuxet, which the Pilgrims settled and renamed Plymouth.

This was Squanto, a man who occupies a special place in the hearts of many people who celebrate Thanksgiving because of his willingness and ability to help the newcomers to his land. Squanto’s ...

Squanto, in exemplifying forgiveness and charity, helped bring to the New World, and to the Pilgrims, the virtue of love at the heart of Christianity. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

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 ...

The manner of burial resembled that of the Pilgrims, suggesting it may have been Squanto. Advertisement. The remains were reburied nearby, on land now occupied by the Eastward Ho golf club.

If the name Squanto doesn’t ring a bell, ask an 8-year-old. The story of the Native American who helped the Pilgrims survive their first desperate year in what is now Plymouth, Mass., has become ...