| King Philip's War, waged between the English and an alliance of Wampanoag, Nipmuk, and Narragansett Indians, devastated Eliot's missions. |
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| At Plimoth, the public walks through an outdoor Wampanoag village staffed by actual men and women. |
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| The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians. |
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| Metacom, Richter points out, willingly assumed an English name, Philip, and he and his Wampanoag followers raised hogs. |
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| The following summer, he led a force into the Mount Hope swamp in Rhode Island, where the Wampanoag chieftain, Metacom, dwelled. |
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| It is also officially a Native American township under the guardianship of the Wampanoag tribe. |
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| The Wampanoag were members of a widespread confederacy of Algonkian-speaking peoples known as the League of the Delaware. |
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| The Wampanoag spoke Massachusett, a language they shared with the Massachusett and Pawtucket Indians to the north. |
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| Alternatively, perhaps the first Thanksgiving was a Wampanoag idea, a nickommo. |
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| There, Native interpreters in seventeenth-century dress interact with visitors and answer questions about both past and contemporary Wampanoag lifeways. |
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| Massasoit's village at Montaup was attacked, but when the colonists supported the Wampanoag, the Narragansett finally were forced to abandon the effort. |
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| In it, Mather the Elder gave special thanks to God for the devastating plague of smallpox which wiped out the majority of the Wampanoag Indians who had been their benefactors. |
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| The Pilgrim Fathers thanked the Wampanoag Indians for their hospitality over a three-day feast in 1621, then proceeded to drive them ruthlessly off their native lands. |
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| Next, 90 or so Wampanoag made a surprise appearance at the settlement's gate, doubtlessly unnerving the 50 or so colonists. |
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| Probably in October, the Pilgrims met their Wampanoag neighbors for three days of feasting on wildfowl and venison. |
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| Wampanoag Ash Cakes, which are described as pockets of corn cake filled with pumpkin or strawberries wrapped in corn husks, are also on the menu. |
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| Despite her father's admonitions, the girl eavesdrops on her older brother's Latin lessons and secretly befriends the son of the local Wampanoag chief. |
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| Jessie Little Doe Baird, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, in Massachusetts, received a MacArthur grant, in 2010, for her efforts to revive her people's extinct language, Wôpanâak. |
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| Experts with roots in American Indian tribes including Hopi, Choctaw, Piscataway, Comanche and Wampanoag, as well as those with ties to the African-American experience, contributed to the exhibition. |
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| Every November, when American schoolchildren are taught about Thanksgiving, they are insistently told the story of how the Pilgrims, in their gratitude, entertained the kindly Wampanoag. |
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| The Wampanoag were a people with a sophisticated society who had occupied the region for thousands of years, says the National Museum of the American Indian. |
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| The pilgrims found the Wampanoag people using this approach when they first arrived in Massachusetts. |
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| In 1974, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council was formed to articulate the concerns of those with Native American ancestry. |
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| They petitioned the federal government in 1975 and again in 1990 for official recognition of the Mashpee Wampanoag as a tribe. |
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| The Wampanoag lost their lands through continued purchase and expropriation by the English colonists. |
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| Cape Cod has been the home of the Wampanoag Native American people for many centuries. |
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| He then sailed along Long Island and entered Narragansett Bay, where he received a delegation of Wampanoag and Narragansett people. |
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| Prominent tribes included the Abenakis, Mi'kmaq, Penobscot, Pequots, Mohegans, Narragansetts, Pocumtucks, and Wampanoag. |
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| The Wampanoag occupied southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. |
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| It was the story of how the early Pilgrims had survived in the new land with the help of the native Wampanoag. |
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| Williams survived the winter of 1636 by the grace of the Wampanoag chief Massasoit, who sheltered him and gave him land. |
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| The cleared village was known as Patuxet to the Wampanoag people, and was abandoned about three years earlier following a plague that killed all of its residents. |
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| It's having a foot in both communities, being part of the Wampanoag community, being part of the Black community and recognizing that they're not mutually exclusive. |
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| Long Island was divided roughly in half between the Wampanoag and Lenape. |
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| Many of the Wampanoag and Mohican peoples were caught up in King Phillip's War, a joint effort of many New England tribes to push Europeans off their land. |
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| To commemorate the 1621 feast enjoyed by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag Indians in Massachusetts, Americans ate 46 million turkeys last Thanksgiving. |
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