The English wanted Native knowledge because they hoped to make the colony economically viable.

Trade mattered.

Furs mattered.

Food supplies mattered.

Geographic knowledge mattered.

Tisquantum helped translate not only words but economic opportunities.

He guided the colonists to places where they could trade and helped them navigate relationships that would otherwise have been opaque.

That makes his biography an Atlantic story as much as a New England story.

He was taken into the expanding oceanic economy by force.

He returned carrying knowledge from that economy.