correctionA previous version of this story mistakenly referred to the Pilgrims as Puritans. Most Americans have heard the somewhat true story of Tisquantum, popularly known as Squanto, and how he ...

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 ...

As the 17th century dawned, cause-and-effect was merging parallel universes. In the Old World, a decision by a group of Leiden Separatists put them on a circuitous journey. Meanwhile, in the New World ...

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 ...

Squanto is one of the most famous Native Americans. Pictured: A turkey made of silver at Thanksgiving in 2007. Getty Images Squanto -- guide, interpreter and teacher -- is one of the most famous ...

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 ...

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 ...

[Scroll down for a video from Jim on this topic!] As the 17th century dawned, cause-and-effect was merging parallel universes. In the Old World, a decision by a group of Leiden Separatists put them on ...