He becomes politically valuable because of the very experiences that harmed him.

He helps Plymouth, but he also pursues his own interests.

He challenges Ousamequin’s authority.

He survives partly because the English need him.

Then he dies young, before the colonial system he helped navigate becomes dominant.

This fuller version does not destroy the familiar story so much as place it inside a much larger one.

There was cooperation.

There was also coercion.

There was diplomacy.

There was also demographic catastrophe.