Who is the author of squanto

Hunt lured 24 Native Americans on board his ship under the premise of trade. Their number included Tisquantum. Hunt locked them up below deck, sailed for Spain and sold these people into the European slave trade. It is thought Tisquantum was liberated some years later, when it is thought he returned to America in working as an interpreter for Captain Thomas Dermer. Tisquantum later searched for his homeland but tragically, he arrived as the Great Dying reached its horrific climax.

His tribe had all been wiped out. His home village, Patuxet, was lost. Ships from England had been fishing and trading in North America waters since the beginning of the 16th century. They also took Native Americans back to Europe — some as slaves — often to callously exhibit. Before , the Native American people lived sparsely and were largely isolated from the rest of the world, meaning they were mostly protected from the threat of foreign illness.

This also meant they lacked immunity to the pathogens that would eventually arrive. Europeans were exploring the villages of indigenous people long before the Mayflower arrived, and they spread sickness at a devastating rate.

Series Scholastic biography. An Indian goes to London with some of the first English explorers, is sold into slavery in Spain, and finally returns to America where he befriends the Pilgrims when they land. Full description. Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record! He started out writing stories. After numerous rejections, he finally sold a story to a pulp magazine. He sold more stories to magazines to earn money. He eventually turned to writing children's books.

Bulla's first children's book "The Donkey Cart," was published in Squanto eventually made it back to Patuxet in , says Coombs, only to find his tribe wiped out by an epidemic brought over by the Europeans.

It is not known what caused this widespread death and devastation. Varying theories include smallpox, yellow fever, bubonic plague and influenza.

The disease affected about four different nations, destroying entire populations, according to Coombs. Between and , Coombs says the Wampanoag nation was made up of 69 villages with an average of about 1, people per village.

She estimates about 50, people died in two years. Upon his return, Coombs says Squanto used his knowledge of the English language to act as an interpreter between the colonists and Indigenous people. In , Wampanoag Chief Massasoit — with Squanto's aid — negotiated an agreement with the pilgrims, promising not to harm each other and to come to each other's aid in the event of an attack from another tribe.

A number of historians say Squanto was seen as power hungry and manipulated the fear and distrust still lingering between the colonists and the Indigenous people.

Squanto's claims that Massasoit had been plotting to attack the English was exposed as a lie, angering the Wampanoag people, says Coombs. According to the terms of their agreement, for that offence, Squanto should have been turned over to Massasoit, says Coombs, but the colonists refused.