What happened to the Indians who helped the pilgrims survive that long winter?

Answer 1

once the pilgrims learned how to take care of themselves(thanks to the indians)they stole their land and killed them.

Answer 2

Squanto, aka Tisquantum, remained in the Plymouth village with the Pilgrims. It had been his home before he was kidnapped in 1605. The coastal area where the Pilgrims settled had been ravaged a few years before their settlement by an epidemic. This area in its depopulated state attracted the attention of the warlike Pequod tribe who wanted the area for their own and were wiling to fight for it. Squanto remained in the Pilgrims village until his death. The Pequod, like most Indians of the time did not fully understand disease, and they blamed the sickness on White Mans' magic. Squanto remained in the Pilgrims village which was actually his native village, because he thought that he could avoid attack by the Pequod because they were afraid of the White Man's magic that caused disease. Unfortunately, Squanto died two years after the first Thanksgiving of what was called the "Indians' disease. This was probably a disease which he contracted due to contact with the Whites.

"He developed a friendship with the Massachusetts settlers and acted as interpreter at the Treaty of Plymouth, signed in 1621 between the Native American chief Massasoit and Governor William Bradford. While guiding a party under Bradford around Cape Cod the following year, he became ill and died." 1

"It was not until Samoset's third visit on 22 March 1621 that he brought along a friend--the last surviving native of Pautuxet--and introduced Squanto to the Pilgrim colonists." 2

"The other Indian who helped the Pilgrims was Samoset. Samoset was an Abknaki who had come to Cape Cod from his tribal area in what is now southeastern Maine. The Abnaki were an Algonquin-speaking people as were all of the New England tribes. Therefore he was easily understood by the Nauset and Wampanoag people." 2

"Following these early entries, Samoset disappears from the records and nothing more has been learned about him."....2


You asked what happened to the Indians after they helped the Pilgrims survive that long winter, so I didn't include detail of their earlier lives. I hope I answered you question sufficiently.

Answer 3

Simple, Pilgrims wouldn't have made it past the first winter. They would have starved or had to go to the Indians and asked for help...

Answer 4

You mean after the Pilgrims pillaged all of their food and left them to starve?

You guess is as good as mine!

Answer 5

The pilgrims ate them at their Thanksgiving.

Answer 6

They eventually got murdered in some manner by those daft white Europeans.

Answer 7

They were betrayed for there kindness and pushed off there land onto reservations.

Answer 8

the pilgrams brought over disease that the indians had no immunity to and that killed alot of them

Answer 9

they got smallpox and the shaft

Answer 10

they were give casinos, measels and alcohol addictions