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Wampanoag
[ wahm-puh-nawg, wahm-puh-noh-ag ]
noun
- a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
- the Eastern Algonquian speech of the Wampanoag people, a dialect of Massachusett.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Wampanoag1
Example Sentences
The word squash comes from the Wampanoag word, askutasquash.
“We want to make sure these kids understand what it means to be Native and to be Wampanoag,” said Nitana Greendeer, a Mashpee Wampanoag who is the head of the tribe’s school.
By then, only a few of the original Wampanoag tribes still existed.
A math lesson involved building a traditional Wampanoag wetu.
“That backstory is so important to knowing the impact on the Wampanoag, of both pre-colonial and colonial contact,” says Peters.
Probably in October, the Pilgrims met their Wampanoag neighbors for three days of feasting on wildfowl and venison.
Alternatively, perhaps the first Thanksgiving was a Wampanoag idea, a nickommo.
The gun of the former missed fire, whereupon the Indian leveled his musket and shot the Wampanoag leader dead.
She, like the groom's mother, probably belonged to the Wampanoag tribe.
Metacom hath often seen the long line of Wampanoag Chiefs, in his sleep?
Wampanoag, I have followed the trail, that your ears may listen to the talk of a Pale-face.
He had gone but a short way when he came upon the Wampanoag chief in a hunting-lodge.
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