Powhatan was the leader for the Tsenacommacah, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Father of famed Pocahontas, who used her relationship with John Smith to make a temporary peace with English colony of Jamestown.
Squanto was a Patuxet who after his capture and journey to England, returned to his village. His entire village had died from disease and English colonists were trying to build the town on Plymouth over the abandoned village. Squanto created a temporary peace with the English and the local indigenous people, and taught the Colonists how to survive the harsh winter.
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