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The Resume

    (circa 1580-November 1622)
    Born in Near Plymouth, Massachusetts
    Birth name was Tisquantum
    Wampanoag Indian
    Assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in Plymouth

Why he might be annoying:

    He ran a protection racket, taking payoffs from Indian groups in return for promising that the Pilgrims would not attack them or unleash the plague on them.
    Like Pocahontas, he became the subject of a historically inaccurate Disney movie.
    Depictions of the first Thanksgiving inevitably show him bare chested even though one suspects he would have dressed more warmly in late October/early November.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Spain (1614).
    He was freed by a group of friars, then traveled to England.
    By the time he returned to his home village (1619), he found that his tribe had been wiped out by disease, possibly smallpox.
    He was so important to the survival of the Pilgrims that Governor William Bradford called him 'a special instrument sent of God.'
    In elementary school Thanksgiving pageants, he was a much more fun part to play than one of the Pilgrims.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 281 Votes: 51.25% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 125 Votes: 45.60% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 21 Votes: 38.10% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 346 Votes: 49.13% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 35 Votes: 51.43% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 19 Votes: 63.16% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 29 Votes: 44.83% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 65 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 29 Votes: 31.03% Annoying