Squanto (Tisquantum)

Squanto was first take to England by George Weymouth (an Eglishman) in 1605, but this may not technically be ocnsidered a kidnapping. it is possible that Squanto went with him voluntarily as it was Weymouth's intention to show off Squanto (and four others of his tribe) as examples of the exciting things to be found in the New World

Squanto did not like England. He was terribly homesick and he returned to North America where he was captured in 1614 by Thomas Hunt (another Englishman). This was definely a kidnapping as Squanto was purposefully on his way to his home, and Hunt was intending to sell native into slavery in Spain.

Squanto was important because he was friends with the Pilgrims. He helped the Pilgrims by leading them through forests so they could hunt. Sir Ferdinando Gorges was a slave taker. Squanto was taken by Sir Gorges for slavery in Spain, but they became friends because Sir Gorges taught Squanto English. Eventually, Squanto escaped and went to England. When he returned to New England in 1619 as pilot for an English sea captain, he escaped and discovered that his people had been destroyed by a disease.

Squanto was born in 1585 and died in 1622, because he had Indian fever and his nose started to bleed, so he bled to death. Squanto was 37 years old. He was born in Massachusetts and grew up there, too. His real name was Tisquantum. Squanto was an American Indian of the Wampanoag tribe. He was popular because he was friends with Chief Massasoit of the same tribe.
One reason why Squanto was so important to the pilgrims is when winter came he provided good shelter for them

The Pilgrims were a specific group of Calvinist Christians. After King Henry VIII separated the Church of England from the rest of the Catholic Church, many English subjects were dissatisfied with the king acting as the highest church authority. Encouraged by the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Holland, and Switzerland, these dissatisfied subjects separated from the Church of England in favor of a type of Christianity without a church hierarchy with the Bible as the only authority. Without a hierarchy, many different interpretations of the Christian faith were practiced by various separatist groups. As a whole, these groups can also be called puritans. One group, originally called the Leiden Congregation (because they left England and lived in Leiden, Holland for several years), believed that they could not successfully live with their beliefs among the English (and the English authorities also pressured the government of Holland to remove them). This group set out to live as a congregation in America. They became known as the Pilgrims because they saw themselves as settlers in a promised land with a promised future.

The Pilgrim Church no longer exists as a single entity. They were a type of Calvinists and puritans. Their religion is similar to today's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Methodists, but none of these religions is identical to the Pilgrims' religion. There are some smaller congregational religions that are closer in many ways to the religion of the Pilgrims, like a current church called The Christian Church and another called the Church of God, but these are not major denominations and have memberships of only a couple thousand.
They were a branch of Christianity called Puritans and they got along with the Native Americans unlike Christopher Columbus' troops who had come to America much earlier from another country.