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 ...

As you gobble your Thanksgiving turkey, imagine being a Pilgrim in March 1621. Hardly four months after the Mayflower reached Plymouth Rock the previous November, you still struggle for food, shelter ...

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 ...

The story of how the Pilgrims arrived at our shores on the Mayflower—and how a friendly Patuxet native named Squanto showed them how to plant corn, using fish as fertilizer—is well-known. But ...

After arriving in Massachusetts Bay in November 1620 following a harrowing 66-day Atlantic crossing, the 105 Pilgrims (as they are known today) spent the first winter aboard their ship the Mayflower.

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Squanto, in exemplifying forgiveness and charity, helped bring to the New World, and to the Pilgrims, the virtue of love at the heart of Christianity. St. Paul reminds us, ‘In all circumstances give ...

The American Thanksgiving story many may be familiar with goes something like this: the English Pilgrims settle in the New World, meet a "friendly" Indigenous guide named Squanto who teaches them to ...

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 ...

These are the first words we hear spoken by the white man to Native Americans as treacherous British traders arrive in the New World in the early scenes of “Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale.” Walt Disney ...

In September of 1620, 102 people boarded and manned a ship called the Mayflower and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip took 65 days. They came prepared with food for the voyage, seed to plant ...