Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving (Paperback)

from foster7

Author Joseph Bruchac, a descendant of Native Americans, wrote this story with historic detail. The story is told from Squanto's point of view. We first learn that Squanto was taken by Captain Thomas Hunt (along with other Native Americans) across the ocean to Spain, and enslaved, until a group o...

from allawishus

The book tells the story of the first Thanksgiving from the perspective of Squanto; I'm not a great student of history and so Iearned a lot that I didn't know from this primary-level book. I didn't know that there was a history of Europeans capturing the native population to take back to various ...

from lycomayflower

The story of Squanto (Tisquantum), a member of the Wampanoag people who was captured by the English and sold as a slave in Spain. Eventually he made it back to his home (in present day Massachusetts) and was present during the three-day feasting shared by members of the Wampanoag and English sett...

from AbigailAdams26

As Bruchac - a prolific children's author of Abenaki ancestry - notes in his afterword to this excellent picture-book, the Thanksgiving story is seldom told from the Native American perspective, and is usually marred by gross historical and cultural inaccuracies. That these untruths are spoon-fed...

from ADw234

I enjoyed reading this book. I learned some facts about Squanto that I did not know. This book tells the story of the first Thanksgiving. It also tells the story of what happened to Squanto, and the events that lead up to the first thanksgiving. It tells the story from his point of view and how h...