Its people knew neighboring communities.

They cultivated corn, beans, and squash.

They harvested shellfish and fish.

They hunted and gathered.

They moved through a landscape understood in detail through generations of experience.

Tisquantum was born into that world.

We do not know his birth year.

We do not have his own written autobiography.

Most surviving written descriptions of him came from English colonists, explorers, and merchants who saw him through their own political and religious assumptions.

That limitation matters.