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 tribal confederation. They lived primarily in and ...

It must be admitted that I was a very cynical child, which is perhaps what turned me into a professional historian. But the part about Thanksgiving that I always found hard to stomach as a child was ...

nmai copy 39088020147500 purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. "Taken to Europe as a slave, he found his ...

Squaw Rock marks where Myles Standish and interpreter Tisquantum, also known as "Squanto," docked their boat 400 years ago. Faries Gray, chief of the Massachusett Tribe of Ponkapoag, said squaw was ...

In the Spring of 1621, after the first harsh winter, where four out of 10 people on the Mayflower had died, the men were building the shelters and Common House of their settlement. A lone native ...

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 a ...