Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxas illustrated by Shannon Stirnweis, Thomas Nelson, 1999.
This
is a children’s story, but it is an incredible story I had never heard
before. I was not aware of the relationship of Squanto to
Thanksgiving. He was taken slave by Spanish profiteers, and taken back
to Spain to be sold. However, a group of monks purchased him. In
helping him return home, he was sent to England with a family, waiting
for a ship. It took him ten years to finally make it back home. When
he finally did, all of his people had passed away from disease. He
lived with a neighboring village for a time, and then grew depressed and
went to live on his own in the wilderness. While there, the pilgrims
arrived, and Built a village where his own people formerly had a
village. He decided to help them, teaching them where to hunt, how to
gather crab, and how to plant corn. After a profitable summer, he
joined them, along with members of his adopted village, for a large
feast of Thanksgiving.
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