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According to legend and a few paintings, a Patuxent Indian by the name of Squanto, a k a Tisquantum, was partially responsible for the Pilgrims’ settling peacefully in the New World and survi… ...
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.
Squanto eventually made it back to Patuxet in 1619, says Coombs, only to find his tribe wiped out by an epidemic brought over by the Europeans. It is not known what caused this widespread death ...
But Squanto’s full story is not, as National Geographic’s new Thanksgiving miniseries, “Saints & Strangers,” shows. That might be because some details of Squanto’s life are in dispute.
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 ...
In 1619, five years after he was taken, Squanto finally made it back home, aboard yet another English explorer’s ship. But any dreams he may have had about a reunion with friends and family were ...