Jan. 31st, 2006

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"Consider Tisquantum, the "friendly Indian" of the textbook. [aka Squanto] More than likely Tisquantum was not the name he was given at birth. In that part of the Northeast, tisquantum referred to rage, especially the rage of manitou, the world-suffusing spiritual power at the heart of coastal Indians' religious beliefs. When Tisquantum approached the Pilgrims and identified himself by that sobriquet, it was as if he had stuck out his hand and said, Hello, I'm the Wrath of God."

--from Charles C Mann, 1491, New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, which is fascinating and everyone should read. :)

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