White Settlers Did Not Carve America Out of the Untamed Wilderness
White Settlers Did Not Carve America Out of the Untamed Wilderness
“America’s Hometown” other wise known as Plymouth, was the chosen location in which the puritans chose to settle. They set sail from Plymouth, England around 1620 on the Mayflower and decided to take settlement in a abandoned Indian village off the coast Cape cod. When the pilgrims have landed many of them were amazed by how the forest were so easily domesticated with wide paths that,” the forest could be penetrated even by a large army”. The pilgrims were in fact the not the first to settle here in this indian village, other Europeans such as John Smith who was there a few years earlier around 1614, which went by the name of Patuxet.
Patuxet was home of the Patuxet tribe. Most of the native americans were killed prior to the pilgrims arriving due to a plaque of disease that they were not immune to. However , there was a native American indian by the name of Tisquantum, also known as Squanto, whom became a interpreter and guide to the pilgrims. He was born in circa roughly around 1580, which is near Plymouth. Squanto was able to interpret for the pilgrims and native Americans because he knew how to speak English. When Thomas Hunt and John smith originally had explored the area a few years prior they used Squanto to explore the land and map out Cape Cod. Captain Thomas Hunt Kidnapped the some of the natives one of them being Squanto to take back to Malag, Spain and sell them in to slavery. “most dishonestly, and inhumanely, for their kind usage of me and all our men, carried them with him to Malaga, and there for a little private gain sold those silly savages for rials of eight.” Squanto learned English, talked his way onto a British ship for his knowledge of North American natural resources, and crossed the Atlantic and came home to find his people died from possibly small pox. Squanto met with the pilgrims and taught him how to harvest the land. “Also taught the Pilgrims how to catch
“America’s Hometown” other wise known as Plymouth, was the chosen location in which the puritans chose to settle. They set sail from Plymouth, England around 1620 on the Mayflower and decided to take settlement in a abandoned Indian village off the coast Cape cod. When the pilgrims have landed many of them were amazed by how the forest were so easily domesticated with wide paths that,” the forest could be penetrated even by a large army”. The pilgrims were in fact the not the first to settle here in this indian village, other Europeans such as John Smith who was there a few years earlier around 1614, which went by the name of Patuxet.
Patuxet was home of the Patuxet tribe. Most of the native americans were killed prior to the pilgrims arriving due to a plaque of disease that they were not immune to. However , there was a native American indian by the name of Tisquantum, also known as Squanto, whom became a interpreter and guide to the pilgrims. He was born in circa roughly around 1580, which is near Plymouth. Squanto was able to interpret for the pilgrims and native Americans because he knew how to speak English. When Thomas Hunt and John smith originally had explored the area a few years prior they used Squanto to explore the land and map out Cape Cod. Captain Thomas Hunt Kidnapped the some of the natives one of them being Squanto to take back to Malag, Spain and sell them in to slavery. “most dishonestly, and inhumanely, for their kind usage of me and all our men, carried them with him to Malaga, and there for a little private gain sold those silly savages for rials of eight.” Squanto learned English, talked his way onto a British ship for his knowledge of North American natural resources, and crossed the Atlantic and came home to find his people died from possibly small pox. Squanto met with the pilgrims and taught him how to harvest the land. “Also taught the Pilgrims how to catch