Kalani Queypo: Playing Squanto | Saints & Strangers

Squanto is actually a real figure in
American history quanto is from the
Pawtuxet tribe and Squanto actually is a
way for like a decade he’s enslaved his
captured by Europeans and he learns the
English language and a decade later he
comes back find that his entire tribe
had been decimated from disease so he’s
the last of his tribe the fact that he’s
on the outside because he’s been
influenced by English culture he speaks
the language he has a worldview that’s
different from the land that he has come
from so he finds himself back at home
and not feeling at home so when the
saints and strangers come over on the
Mayflower there’s almost a connection
that they have because they are also
strangers in a way sad not far from this
place and went into the waters that
carries
that day I long for my home
lift I was already home
quanto was a diplomat he was a
translator me as Kalon equipo in the
modern world you straddle traditional
and modern you you battle with the
values of your people of the past and
and what’s happening right now there’s
one point where I’m incapacitated and
the native people say something to
Bradford and and and he’s like oh if we
only had somebody to translate you know
and that delicate balance that that
instrument that tool was missing for
them you know and and it just goes to
show you how everybody plays their part
there’s a role for everybody
Squanto was such an important role in
this because he really does bridge that
gap between the native people who were
there and and the Saints and strangers
these settlers
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