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Squanto
[ skwon-toh ]
noun
- died 1622, North American Indian of the Narragansett tribe: interpreter for the Pilgrims.
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Further parody videos include a reenactment of the Thanksgiving story and signing of the Declaration of Independence, where Ballinger dresses up as the Native American Squanto, with a feathered headdress, also talking in gibberish.
It was badly decimated by European diseases by the time the Mayflower arrived, but one of its survivors, Tisquantum, commonly known as Squanto, famously helped the English colonists survive their first winter.
There’s a plaque commemorating Squanto a quarter mile to the southeast, but at least one local historian, the late Warren Sears Nickerson, has suggested Squanto’s remains were buried northeast of the beach.
In 1619, five years after he was taken, Squanto finally made it back home, aboard yet another English explorer’s ship.
As with so many stories about Squanto, the truth of this one remains a mystery.
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