His conflict with Ousamequin did not make him an Englishman.

He remained a person moving through overlapping systems of power, trying to create a place for himself after the place he had known was gone.

That may be why his story continues to resist every simple version built around it.

The Thanksgiving hero is too clean.

The cynical collaborator is too clean.

The tragic victim is too clean.

The real Tisquantum contains parts of all three without being reducible to any one of them.

He could help and manipulate.

He could be harmed and still pursue power.

He could work closely with colonists while carrying a history of English betrayal.