Massasoit
Americannoun
noun
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Ousamequin, often referred to as Massasoit, which is his title and means “great sachem,” faced a nearly impossible situation, historians and educators said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2021
Many pages are devoted to imagining the details of a discussion between Roger Williams and the Wampanoag Massasoit.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2021
Ousamequin, the Massasoit, arrived with perhaps ninety men—more than the entire population of Plymouth.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims invited Massasoit and his warriors to a five-day feast that later Americans remembered as the first Thanksgiving.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
More ambitious still, he hoped to use his influence on the English to make this new Patuxet the center of the Wampanoag confederation, thereby stripping the sachemship from Massasoit, who had held him captive.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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