Easy Reader Biographies: Squanto A Friend to the …

[Pages:23]Easy Reader Biographies: Squanto A Friend to the Pilgrims

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Squanto lived from about 1585 to 1622.

Squanto was a Native American. He lived at the time when the Pilgrims came to America. Squanto helped the Pilgrims in many ways. Read on to learn about his life.

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Squanto lived in Patuxet. This is the place we now call Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Squanto was born around the year 1585 in the village of Patuxet. He was a Wampanoag. His real name was Tisquantum, but people called him Squanto.

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The Wampanoag traded furs. In return, they got knives and beads.

When Squanto was a boy, only Native Americans lived in America. As he grew older, traders and explorers came to America from Europe.

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When he was in England, Squanto learned to speak English.

In 1614, some of the traders forced Squanto to go to Spain. They planned to sell him as a slave. But Squanto got away and went to England.

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