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Squanto and the first Thanksgiving

by Joyce K. Kessel

Cover of Squanto and the first Thanksgiving
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Describes how the Indian Squanto, an English-speaking Christian and former slave, whose village had been wiped out by smallpox, taught the Pilgrims the skills they needed to survive the harsh Massachusetts winter.

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