Tisquantum’s story asks something harder: what happens when one of those peoples begins building permanence on the ruins of the other’s home?

There is no surviving statement in which Tisquantum answers that question directly.

That absence should make historians cautious, not silent.

We can state the geography without inventing his emotions.

We can say that he returned to Patuxet and found it devastated.

We can say that Plymouth was then established there.

We can say that he helped the settlers who occupied that place.

And we can admit that the emotional meaning of those choices belonged to him, not to us.

Keeping the name Patuxet visible is one way to preserve that respect.

It reminds readers that Plymouth did not begin the history of the land.