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Wampanoags

  • plural
    of Wampanoag.
    Wampanoag
    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.

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Cedric Cromwell, former chair of the Mashpee Wampanoags, was also sentenced in U.S.

From Seattle Times Nov. 16, 2022

He looks forward to returning years and decades from now not just to see how the plants he helped nourish take hold, but also how Wampanoags use the restored land.

From Washington Times Aug. 24, 2022

A plague had killed many Wampanoags before the Pilgrims arrived, and in the winter of 1620-21 the Pilgrims were dying off, too.

From New York Times Nov. 22, 2021

Squanto mediated between the Pilgrims and the nearby Wampanoags, interpreting for both sides and teaching the English to plant corn.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

About noontime the great Massasoit, chief of the Indian tribe called the Wampanoags, had emerged from the forest with all his tallest braves in single file behind him.

From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various

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