This episode looks at the kidnapping of Squanto – Tisquantum – in 1614, along with 26 other Wampanoags, in the context of the extraordinarily robust trade between northern Europeans and the tribes along the northeastern Atlantic Coast of North America. Tisquantum would become one of the most important “cosmopolitan” Indians of the era, and in a horrifying twist of fate would become one of the last of his people to survive.

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References for this episode

Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

David Hackett Fischer, Champlain’s Dream

Neal Salisbury, “Treacherous Waters: Tisquantum, the Red Atlantic, and the Beginnings of Plymouth Colony,” Early American Literature, Vol 56 (2021)

John Booss, “Survival of the Pilgrims: A Reevaluation of the Lethal Epidemic Among the Wampanoag,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Winter 2019.

Squanto (Wikipedia)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Gold)

Narragansett Beer commercial