Squanto

      Squanto was a valuable asset to the Pilgrims as they began their new colony here in America.  He was introduced to the Puritans by Samoset.  Samoset knew that Squanto was more expirenced and could speak english better that he could so he broght squanto along with him.  Squanto served as an interpreter between the puritans and the native tribes.  he help the pilgrims trade and gain friendship with the other native americans.  While squanto was helping the White men, his whole family died of a plague and he was devastated.  Eventually squanto became the pilgrims go-to man.
       Squanto taught the pilgrims many things.  He taught them how to build warm houses, much warmer than those which they stayed in teh first winter.  Also he showed them how, when, and where to plant their corn crop so they would have a bountiful harvest in the fall.  Swuanto eventually died from a fever in 1622. He was very valuable to the pilgrims, and without him who knows if the colony would have survived.

source: http://www.workersforjesus.com/f25-14.htm

Cabeza de vaca, what happened after the exploration of Texas?

After Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain from his eight –year expedition of Texas in 1537, he was appointed governor of the La Plata region of Argentina.  Then he spends three years writing la relacion before he assumes his post as the governor.  Finally in 1542 la relacion is published.  Cabeza de vaca speaks of new edicts about the treatment of the natives and how it was fair and of the suppression of slavery which causes his men to rebel against him in 1543 and he is held prisoner from April to March 1544.  In 1544 he is returned to Spain and goes to Madrid to have his pleas heard by the council of the Indies.  In 1546, Alvar is sentenced to the loss of all of his positions of office in La Plata and is exiled to North Africa.  He died in 1559 in Valladolid, Spain.

source: http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/cabeza-de-vaca.htm

 this is a picture of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.

The native Americans played many games to pass the time. Among the most popular is a game called tikauwich or shinny. This game is related to modern day field hockey. They played on a field of about 300 square yards, with a goal at each end facing each other. The object of the game was to hit or kick a small wooden or buckskin ball into the goals using a stick called a shinny or one’s feet. The ball was not to be touched by hands during the game. What is interesting about this game is that mostly women played, men only played sometimes.