A man without a tribe: The true story of Squanto
Paula Peters, Special to the Cape Cod Times
Updated 6:17 a.m. EST Nov. 19, 2020
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from “Of Patuxet,” an introduction to the 400th anniversary edition of William Bradford’s “Of Plimoth Plantation,” written by Paula Peters, a journalist, educator, activist and member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. To mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing, the Cape Cod Times is working with tribes to raise up Native voices that have been historically oppressed and to correct and add context to the stories that have been written by white narrators. Read Peters’ full piece here.
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