That final fact may be the most important correction of all.

The Thanksgiving myth often makes Native people appear once at America’s beginning and then disappear.

Tisquantum’s real story points in the opposite direction.

It begins with a Native homeland long before Plymouth.

It passes through catastrophe.

It enters colonial history.

And it connects to Native communities that continue in the present.

The Last Image

Imagine the familiar picture of Squanto beside the Pilgrims.

Now add everything the simplified image leaves outside the frame.