Tisquantum (c. 1580s – November 1622) was a Patuxet. He was the Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

 who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. The Patuxet tribe was a tributary

Tributary state

The term tributary state refers to one of the two main ways in which a pre-modern state might be subordinate to a more powerful neighbour. The heart of the relationship was that the tributary would send a regular token of submission to the superior power...

 of the Wampanoag Confederacy.
Squanto's exact date of birth is unknown but many historians listed it as January 1, 1580. On his way back to the Patuxet in 1614, Tisquantum was kidnapped by Englishman Thomas Hunt.