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  • NAME: Squanto
  • OCCUPATION: Folk Hero
  • BIRTH DATE: c. 1580
  • DEATH DATE: c. November 1622
  • AKA: Tisquantum

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Squanto, also called Tisquantum, was an Native American interpreter and guide for the Puritan Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World.


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Squanto, also called Tisquantum, was an Native American interpreter and guide for Pilgrims in the New World. Thomas Hunt kidnapped Squanto and brought him to Spain to be sold into slavery. Squanto escaped to England and returned home in 1619, he found that all of his people had been wiped out by disease. Fluent in English, he became a member of the Plymouth colony and served as a guide.

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