Gifts from the Indians; Native Americans not only provided new kinds of food and recreation, they may have given the founding fathers ideas on how to form a government.(THE HOME FORUM)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: November 26, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Nancy Humphrey Case

He'd been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold as a slave in Spain. Aided by friars, he'd escaped, spent two years in London, and finally made his way back to America. But when he walked into his Indian village of Patuxet in 1619, he found nothing but bones. His tribe had all died of disease.

But that was only the beginning of the story of Tisquantum, or Squanto, as he came to be called. He had learned to speak English durin...

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