It was a society capable of sending ship after ship across the Atlantic.

That knowledge would later make him unusually powerful and unusually dangerous in the eyes of other Native leaders.

Language is never only language.

An interpreter controls information.

Someone who understands both sides can decide what to translate, how to frame a request, when to warn one party, and when to withhold information.

Tisquantum’s years in England therefore created a skill set that no one around Plymouth could easily replace.

But none of that erased his original goal.

He wanted to go home.

A Route Back Through The Atlantic World

Finding a way from England back to Patuxet was not simple.