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By Jeremy | November 14, 2006
With Thanksgiving around the corner, it's time to remember God's hand of protection and provision even in the midst of dire circumstances. Consider the story of Squanto, the almost mythic Indian hero of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving.
While historical accounts of Squanto's life vary, the basics are well recorded. Around 1608, more than a decade before the Pilgrims arrived, English traders sailed to what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts. When the trusting Wampanoag Indians came out to trade, the English imprisoned them, shipped them to Spain, and sold them into slavery.
A Spanish monk bought one of the captured Indians, a boy named Squanto, and taught him the Christian faith. Squanto eventually made his way to England and worked in the stables of a man named John Slaney, who sympathized with Squanto's desire to return home and promised to put him on the first ship bound for America. They found their ship in 1618, ten years after Squanto was first kidnapped. But he arrived back in Massachusetts to find more heartbreak awaiting him. An epidemic had destroyed Squanto's entire village.
A year later, a shipload of English families arrived and settled on the very land once occupied by Squanto's tribe. Squanto went to meet them, greeting the startled Pilgrims in English. Pilgrim Governor William Bradford recorded in his diary that Squanto "became a special instrument sent of God for [our] good . . . He showed [us] how to plant [our] corn, where to take fish and to procure other commodities . . . and was also [our] pilot to bring [us] to unknown places for [our] profit, and never left [us] till he died."
Author and humorist
Eric Metaxas published the story last year in a classic children's book,
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving.
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