Name the native American that spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive?

Answer 1

Squanto was the name of the Indian who spoke English and helped the Pilgrims survive. He was a member Pawtuxet band of the Wampanoag tribe who were very influential tribe in the area of where the Pilgrims first settled.

Answer 2

The first English-speaking Native American the Pilgrims met was Samoset, in March 1621, an Abenaki from what is now Maine who had been captured, taken to England where he learned English, and then returned. A few days later Squanto, or Tisquantum, was brought to the settlement by Samoset. Squanto was from the Patuxet tribe, which lived near Plymouth. Squanto had also been captured by whites, then sold into slavery in Spain. He escaped from there to England and eventually made his way back home.

It was Squanto who taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn, a food not found in Europe, using herrings from the sea as fertilizer; how to catch and eat clams and eels from the river; and how to hunt for deer, bears and turkeys.

Samoset and Squanto together convinced the great Massassoit, chief of the Wampanoags, that the Pilgrims meant no harm. Massassoit could easily have wiped out the settlement but instead signed a peace treaty.