Squanto Part 1

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Burr, it is cold out.
Wow.

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It is.
It's November already.

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It's November already, so we're
pre recording a bonus episode.

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A series of bonus episodes about
the life of Squanto.

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Did you learn about Squanto
growing up much?

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Very briefly, you know, you hear
the the Pilgrim story, Squanto

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kind of glance over it.
You do some crafts, you know,

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you make a little Turkey thing
or like a headdress and you call

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it a day.
Did you watch the Charlie Brown

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Thanksgiving special?
Oh, I've I've seen, I've seen it

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before.
'Cause he shows up there,

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Massasole and Cheryl said.
And Quanto, I'll show up.

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I've.
Seen it less than the Christmas

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one, but I've seen it.
Yeah, it's been been a minute.

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And Squanto's in the Bible too,
so this is like, great.

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Oh no.
So you might be thinking, why

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are we going with Squanto?
Yeah, Well, Squanto.

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Yeah.
So why are we going with

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Squanto?
Well, when I, I, I don't,

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somehow I got through my
childhood.

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Not really.
Maybe they said Squanto, but I

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did not pick up on it.
And.

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And if you look at the life of
Squanto, it's almost reminiscent

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of like Joseph in the Bible, how
he was used and how it appears

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he was became a believer through
all that he went through and

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played a pivotal role in saving
the lives of the pilgrims that.

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Were there and that that that's
basically what I learned in

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elementary school.
And that's, that's like, I don't

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have a good context for like his
whole life happening before or

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after, you know, it's kind of
like that very short snapshot.

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So where Squanto grew up would
have been in the area of

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Massachusetts, Rhode Island.
There were actually 69 tribes

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that we know of there that were
part of this Wampanoag.

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I probably mispronouncing that
Wampanoag confederation.

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And so that was there.
And they would have had some

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early European contact with
traders, like in the late 1500s,

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like late late 1500s, maybe
early early 1600s.

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So Squanto, I'm looking at my
notes here.

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I don't see it here, but he was
born, I believe, like 1780 ish.

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OK.
So we're kind of like you're,

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you're setting some background.
For it, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Gotcha.
So he was born not did I say

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1780?
He sure did. 1580 I was like.

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I My whole concept of pilgrims
were up.

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I had a bad education, but there
we go.

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Yeah, around 1580 or so.
And so we've they've had some

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contact with Europeans, but not
a lot.

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And so you may know of Captain
John Smith.

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Oh, yes, yes.
You know.

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From that very historically
accurate Pocahontas movie by

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Disney.
Very historically accurate.

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So he is going on this mission
and so around.

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Just going back to my notes, 16
O 5's Quanto likely encountered

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George Weymouth's expedition.
And so that was where they're

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trading goods and stuff.
And then in 1614, Thomas Hunt

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was a Lieutenant, if I got this
right, underneath John Smith.

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And John Smith had told him, you
know, go along these coastlines,

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establish contact with these
Indians, see what goods they

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need.
Like, they're trying to set up

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an economy, like, like, get to
know them.

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Let's set, Let's see what they
want, what, what we can do.

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But instead of just doing that,
he kidnaps Squanto and a handful

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of other Indians from that area.
And and so you're saying Squanto

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may been born around 1580 or
something.

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Is that you're saying 70s?
So he's probably 20, early 20s,

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maybe a late teenager.
If I if I remember that right,

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'cause I believe he lives to be
around just in his mid 40s

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'cause he's gonna he's gonna die
from a disease shortly after

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the.
Spoiler Al sorry.

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Sorry, so he dies in his mid 40s
so that that puts him around

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1580.
So he's kidnapped in 1614 by

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Thomas Hunt and this is a
betrayal?

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It's not something that was
condoned.

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By John Smith, John.
Smith, He wasn't there.

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In fact, England would later
kind of put out a statement that

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says that this was wrong,
although not much happened to

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him from what we tell.
So Quanto, he's born, he comes

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into contact with some early
Europeans, he is kidnapped 1614

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and he's taken over to Spain and
that's really where we're going

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to end it for this that's.
Kind of interesting I never you

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never hear about Squanto in
Spain.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Went over to Spain and got mixed

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up with some Friars there.
Wow.

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So this is kind of like he's in
a pretty precarious place.

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It's not great.
He's been captured, he's

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kidnapped.
He's going to be sold as a

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slave.
So yeah, I see the Joseph

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parallels.
Well, I hope, I hope the story

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picks up because I'm, I'm
feeling bad for Squanto.

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Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

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So we'll leave it there.
So stay tuned to next week's

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bonus episode and we will pick
up Squanto from there.

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But that's our take.
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