![]() When he encountered the Plymouth Colony settlers, he spoke English, having lived five years in Europe, including time at the home of a London merchant. He and his Indigenous relatives would have been quite familiar with the tradition of “thanksgiving” because it was, and still is, an essential aspect of their regular spiritual practices, one that predates by many generations the American holiday of Thanksgiving.Ī member of the Patuxet Tribe of the Wampanoags, Tisquantum was likely born around 1580. The historical details of this somewhat mythologized story are far more complicated-as was the life of Squanto, whose actual name was Tisquantum. Those who survived in the early settlement are said to have gathered with the Native people in a feast of gratitude, establishing the time-honored tradition of having a “Thanksgiving” dinner on the fourth Thursday of November. Having fled their native England, the new émigrés endured hardship and privation in both their journey and their adjustment to the new land. ![]() ![]() ![]() For generations, the dominant cultural narrative of America’s Thanksgiving holiday has told how a Native American man named Squanto showed the Pilgrims how to get food after they arrived on the Mayflower in Massachusetts in 1620. ![]()
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