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	Squanto
		Squanto was to help Smith for a short time, and then he would return to his village.
		Squanto was invited to live in a nearby Wampanoag village.
		Squanto lived there until the Indians heard about the white men who were building a town near the place where his tribe's village used to stand.
	www.workersforjesus.com /f25-14.htm (1024 words)

	Squanto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto was a Wampanoag Indian from the coastal village of Patuxet.
		Squanto’s tribal life groomed him for the role he would later play in the lives of the Pilgrims and the surrounding Indians.
		Squanto helped to establish an additional treaty between Plymouth and all of the Indian groups from Massachusetts Bay to the tip of Cape Cod, resulting in a tributary system.
	daphne.palomar.edu /marguello/sum02/Hist101/Eschenbach847/Squanto.htm (543 words)

	Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Squanto (Tisquantum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto's movements are unclear for the next three years—until 1617, by which time he had somehow gotten to London.
		Squanto's first contributions to the English were to teach them how to use fish fertilizer with their crops and to help arrange a treaty of alliance binding the Pokanokets and Nemaskets to Plymouth.
		Squanto attempted to undermine the Pokanokets by telling Wampanoag audiences that he alone had the ear and loyalty of the colony's leaders and that they should abandon Massasoit's leadership for his.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_037000_squanto.htm (1091 words)

	Squanto - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Squanto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kidnapped by the English and taken to England 1605, he returned to New England 1619 as a guide for Captain John Slaine.
		His own tribe having been wiped out by an epidemic, Squanto settled among the Wampanoag people, serving as interpreter for Chief Massasoit in his dealings with the Pilgrims.
		Born in southeastern New England, Squanto eventually settled in Plymouth on his return from England, living there until his death.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Squanto (130 words)

	Tisquantum (or Squanto)
		Gorges kept Squanto, taught him some English, and eventually hired him to be a guide and interpreter for his sea captains who were exploring the New England coasts.
		Squanto was the only Patuxet left alive, so he moved in with a neighboring tribe that lived at Pokanoket--the home of Wampanoag sachem Massasoit.
		Without Squanto's help, the Pilgrims would probably have had severe famine over the next year, and would have lived in constant fear of their Indian neighbors--Indians who were actually quite peaceful, but who had been rightfully angered by the cruel treatment they received from many English ship captains like Thomas Hunt.
	members.aol.com /calebj/squanto.html (1180 words)

	Squanto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto was born somewhere in New England in the late 1500s.
		Squanto lived with the Wampanoag tribe until he heard that the white men were building a city nearby.
		Squanto died of a fever in 1622, but is still remembered today as a key figure in American folklore.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /01_02/AH/sq/sq.htm (508 words)

	Squanto - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto was kidnapped and taken to England by George Weymouth in 1605, according to the memoirs of Ferdinando Gorges.
		Squanto was taken as a slave to Málaga, Spain, where Hunt attempted to sell Squanto and a number of other Native Americans into slavery for £20 apiece.
		Squanto finally settled with the Pilgrims and saw them through their first difficult winter by teaching them to increase their food production by fertilizing their crops, and by directing them to the best places to catch fish and eels.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Squanto (647 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto probably was present at the first Thanksgiving celebration held by the Pilgrims.
		There, Squanto was bought by a Spanish monk, who treated him well, freed him from slavery, and taught him the Christian faith.
		Squanto eventually made his way to England -- where he either learned or improved his English -- and worked in the stables of a man named John Slaney.
	www.billpetro.com /HolidayHistory/hol/squanto.html (408 words)

	squantopaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto's importance to the colony was so great that when he was captured by an anti-English band, a small military from Plymouth came to his rescue.
		Squanto designed a plan to "establish himself as an independent native political leader" and to weaken the Pokanoket's influence on the colonists.
		Squanto wanted to rebuild the Patuxet band, with the few survivors left, with him as their leader so he could uphold this honor he believed in.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/filmnotes/squantopaper.html (2410 words)

	Squanto Biographies
		Of course, although Squanto (or, more properly, Tisquantum) led an interesting life, and is worthy of a good child's biography, there are a couple of problems facing modern biographers as they try to recreate him.
		Although the Pilgrims were not best pleased with Squanto, they did not want to lose their best translator; still, to make peace, they might have turned him over, as Massasoit had demanded, if the sighting of a ship on the horizon had not completely distracted everyone (Yaffles, “End of Life”).
		Squanto did, of course, play an important role in helping the Pilgrims adapt to the new land they found themselves in, whatever his personal reasons for helping them might have been.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~conradr/tisquantum2.htm (3746 words)

	Squanto
		Squanto was two days away from his village when he was taken by Captain Hunt and sold in Spain.
		Samoset came to Squanto and told him a village called Plymouth was built by people from England.
		Squanto said, "We come as friends." The leaders, William Bradford, John Carver, and Miles Standish, agreed to talk.
	www.mce.k12tn.net /indians/famous/squanto.htm (345 words)

	Pilgrims' best friend was 'a nice man' named Squanto 11/27/03
		Squanto and his companions were bound in chains and taken across the Atlantic to be sold as slaves in Spain.
		Squanto, who had never felt at home with his adopted tribe because they were not his people and because he was a man of Europe as well as America, adopted the Pilgrims as his people.
		Squanto took some of the Pilgrims to a brook where — exactly on Squanto’s predicted schedule in mid-April — hundreds of herring came to spawn and were easily caught.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Astories/nov27/thanks.s.htm (1128 words)

	Squanto
		Squanto, himself, confirmed the fact that he was one of several Indians who were kidnapped by Capt. Thomas Hunt and sold into slavery in the year 1614.
		Squanto carved a prominent place for himself in the history of the early settlement of New England, becoming a valuable assistant, guide, interpreter and ambassador of sorts for the early settlers, whom he served from the time of his appearance until his death two years later.
		Squanto was well aware of the great fear the Indians had of the plague, and his prestige grew as he spread the story that the English had buried the plague in barrels under their storehouse.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mosmd/squanto.htm (3185 words)

	Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Newspaper Edition - Your Community News Source Since 1876.
		Squanto was a member of the Patuxet Clan of the larger Wampanoag Tribe.
		Squanto made his way to England and asked Sir Fernando to have one of his fishing boats drop him off in America.
		Squanto was the interpreter when he and John Carver signed a peace treaty in March 1621.
	www.dailytidings.com /2005/1123/112305c1.shtml (634 words)

	Squanto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto (YT-194) was built in 1942 by Ira S. Bushy and Son, at Brooklyn, N.Y. She was placed in service early in 1943 in the 10th Naval District, covering the area around the Virgin Islands.
		Squanto was redesignated a large harbor tug, YTB-194, on 15 May 1944.
		Squanto served the Navy just over 20 years and spent all her time in the 10th Naval District.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s16/squanto.htm (179 words)

	Squanto's Thanksgiving, a 15 minute, one-act children's play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SQUANTO'S THANKSGIVING www.joyfulheart.com/holiday/squanto_play.htm A One Act Children's Play Play Time: About 15 minutes By Ralph F. Wilson Permission is granted to make enough copies to perform this play for church, school, and community settings only.
		Here Squanto was hired as the scout and guide for a New World expedition headed by Captain Thomas Dermer, a good and compassionate man. Four years had passed since he had been kidnapped.
		Squanto stayed with them for a year and a half, performing invaluable service to Plymouth Colony from March 1621 until his death of an Indian fever in November 1622.
	www.joyfulheart.com /thanksgiving/squanto_play.htm (1707 words)

	Squanto--God's Special Indian, a Thanksgiving Story - Christian Articles Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto had been fishing along the rugged coast when his friend had looked up and pointed, "Great boats with white wings." They had scrambled over the boulders to meet the strange white-faced intruders.
		Squanto was sent to invite friendly Chief Massasoit (MASS-a-soit) and his braves.
		Squanto lay mortally ill, struck by a raging fever while scouting east of Plymouth.
	www.joyfulheart.com /thanksgiving/squanto.htm (1394 words)

	Story of Thanksgiving’s Squanto parallels Old Testament Joseph
		Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to provide for the necessities of life, including how to fish for cod, how to plant corn with a fish, stalk deer, plant pumpkins, skin beavers, and determine what berries were edible.”
		As for Squanto, Cureton said his story was obviously significant for the Pilgrims because they were starving to death and he came to their rescue.
		Cureton said Squanto’s story is significant to Americans today because he’s a model of how to deal with adversity in a positive manner for the greater good of others.
	www.floridabaptistwitness.com /5189.article (1077 words)

	"the People's Paths home page!" Paths To Articles! - ‘Squanto’ Revisited
		Squanto was shown as a 'curiosity' in England.
		Squanto was 'sold' as a slave to the Spanish as if he was a possession; his People were free People.
		Squanto no longer has his grandfather teachers to continue the stories of the Great Mystery, the ways of existing with Nature.
	www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /articles/squantorevisit.htm (979 words)

	Thanksgiving Information
		Squanto, as the only educated and baptized Christian among the Wampanoag, was seen as merely an instrument of God, set in the wilderness to provide for the survival of His chosen people, the Pilgrims.
		Squanto was originally from the village of Patuxet (Pa TUK et) and a member of the Pokanokit Wampanoag nation.
		Later Squanto was captured by a British slaver who raided the village and sold Squanto to the Spanish in the Caribbean Islands.
	www.2020tech.com /thanks/temp.html (6125 words)

	American History: The First Thanksgiving - Chuck Missler - Koinonia House
		His story began in 1605 when Squanto and four other Indians were taken captive, sent to England,and taught English to provide intelligence background on the most favorable places to establish colonies.
		Squanto, with a few others, were bought and rescued by local friars and introduced to the Christian faith.
		Squanto also taught them to exploit the pelts of the beaver, which was in plentiful supply and in great demand throughout Europe.
	www.khouse.org /articles/1997/111 (1255 words)

	A Brief History of Squanto
		Gorges, Squanto’s new owner, took him into his own home, teaching him some English, so that Squanto could "communicate to him a knowledge of their (the Indians') county." As well, Georges hoped he would be a guide and interpreter for his sea captains and New World explorers.
		Squanto was provided with a passage to Cupids (then known as Cuper's Cove) in 1618.
		Squanto accompanied him as a pilot and an interpreter.
	www.blueladder.com /education/ushistunit2notes4.htm (800 words)

	Pond Cove Twenty-three (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Squanto had been born into the Patuxet tribe, and he grew up in a village right where the Pilgrim village would one day be built!
		Squanto knew she was royalty, so he bowed.
		Squanto was released and he lived for four more years with the Spanish monks.
	www.quiknet.com /moseley/pond/pond23.html (1040 words)

	MayflowerHistory.com
		Squanto did make contact with Massasoit, and his brother Quadequina, the heads of the Wampanoag Confederation, and in the absence of his own people he took up residence with them.
		Squanto even went so far as trying to trick the Pilgrims into a show of military action, by claiming certain Indian groups were in conspiracy together to fight the English: but he went too far, and his treachery was discovered by both the Pilgrims and the Indians.
		When Massasoit learned that Squanto was abusing his power and deceiving for personal gain, he ordered the Pilgrims to turn over Squanto for punishment (death).
	www.mayflowerhistory.com /History/BiographyTisquantum.php (1517 words)

	Chattering Mind: Big Hugs to Squanto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Here's what amazes me: Young Squanto was deceived and nearly sold into slavery by an obnoxious colonizing acquaintance of Captain John Smith six years before the Pilgrims landed.
		According to Neal Salisbury of Smith College, who writes a wonderful paper on Squanto that you can read online, Squanto survived some disagreeableness between other remaining tribes near Plymouth, and was introduced to the Mayflower's passengers in 1620.
		The fact that Squanto was a native of (what was to them) a wilderness, who also spoke fluent English, amazed the Pilgrims.
	www.beliefnet.com /blogs/chatteringmind/2005/11/big-hugs-to-squanto.html (344 words)

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