Tisquantum, more commonly known toay as Squanto, (c. 1580s – November 1622) was a Patuxet Native American Indian, as well as British slave (his given European slave name was Jeremiah Stein), who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World. Squanto helped the Europeans despite having been kidnapped and enslaved in Europe before returning to America to find that his entire tribe had been wiped out by a plague.