Tisquantum squanto biography video

00:30by Eric Metaxas, illustrated by Shannon Sternweiss.

00:37Every once in a while, the hand of God is easy to see.

00:42And for a brief moment, fairy tales and history are the same thing.

00:47This story is about one of those times.

00:53It was in the year of our Lord, 1608.

00:56Few white men had ever seen North America, but everywhere, there were various tribes

01:02of natives, some who were friendly and trusting, others who were fierce and cruel.

01:08On the chilly, gray coast of what is today called Massachusetts, there lived a tribe

01:13called the Patuxets, who were as friendly and trusting as any that lived.

01:18One of them, a boy about twelve, was called Tisquantum, or Squanto.

01:26One day, while Squanto and some other Patuxet braves were hunting for lobsters along the

01:31shore, they saw a giant vessel.

01:35It was the size of a hundred canoes.

01:38The men aboard it wore strange clothing and had hair on their faces like fur.

01:44But Squanto was not frig