Also known as Tisquantum, Squanto was a member of the Patuxet and played a key part in the story of the Plymouth Pilgrims. In 1614, he was kidnapped along with four others by Thomas Hunt, an English explorer and associate of John Smith, and sold into slavery. Squanto returned to New England in 1619 to find his own tribe decimated by illness, so he joined the Wampanoag tribe, becoming an invaluable resource as an interpreter and guide to the Pilgrims, as well as teaching them critically important survival techniques.
