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    The Wampanoag (/ˈwɑːmpənɔːɡ/), also rendered Wôpanâak, are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands currently based in southeastern Massachusetts...
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  • Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (formerly Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) is one of two federally recognized tribes of Wampanoag people in Massachusetts...
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    The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) (Wampanoag: Âhqunah Wôpanâak) is a federally recognized tribe of Wampanoag people based in the town of Aquinnah...
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  • Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe is one of several cultural heritage organizations of individuals who identify as descendants of the Wampanoag people in Rhode...
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  • Askamaboo (category Wampanoag people)
    Askamaboo also spelled Askamapoo or Askommopoo was a female Wampanoag sachem (also known as a paramount chief), whose territory was on the island Nantucket...
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    Harris, shows the history of the Wampanoag people through Cape Cod archaeological sites. In 1974, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council was formed to articulate...
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    formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern Massachusetts. In its revived form, it is spoken in four Wampanoag communities. The language...
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    Nantucket (category Wampanoag)
    its name from a Wampanoag word, transliterated variously as natocke, nantaticu, nantican, nautica or natockete, which is part of Wampanoag lore about the...
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  • Pocasset village, a historical community of Wampanoag people in Massachusetts and Rhode Island Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts and Rhode Island...
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    United States Powhatan people of Virginia, United States Wampanoag of Massachusetts Patuxet, formerly a band of the Wampanoag peoples Wabanaki of the Maritime...
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    Pokanoket (category Wampanoag people)
    Pakanokick) are a group of Wampanoag people and the village governed by Massasoit (c. 1581–1661), chief sachem of the Wampanoag people. The village was located...
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    This feast lasted three days and was attended by 90 Native American Wampanoag people and 53 survivors of the Mayflower (Pilgrims). Less widely known is...
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    Metacomet (category Wampanoag people)
    adopted English name King Philip, was sachem (elected chief) to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. His older brother Wamsutta...
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    the Native people.[unreliable source?] Pukwudgie: A creature from Algonquian folklore. The local Wampanoag people consider these "little people" to be dangerous...
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  • The Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe is a cultural heritage group that claims descent from the Wampanoag people based in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They have...
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    Aquinnah, Massachusetts (category Articles containing Wampanoag-language text)
    federally recognized tribes of Wampanoag people in Massachusetts. This area is one of the earliest sites of whaling, with the Wampanoag harpooning their catch...
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    the 1930s, Narragansett and Wampanoag people commemorate the battle annually in a ceremony initiated by Narragansett-Wampanoag scholar Princess Red Wing...
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  • heritage organizations of individuals who identify as descendants of the Wampanoag people in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. They formed a nonprofit organization...
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    "Nobnocket" by the Wampanoag people and was first referred to by the colonial settlers as "Homes Hole", "Homes" from a Wampanoag term for "old man" and...
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    Massasoit (category Wampanoag people)
    -⁠SOY-it) or Ousamequin (c. 1581 – 1661) was the sachem or leader of the Wampanoag confederacy. Massasoit means Great Sachem. Although Massasoit was only...
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  • and their relations over the following decades with the indigenous Wampanoag people, culminating in the bloody King Philip's War of 1675–78. Mayflower...
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  • Wampanoag people in Rhode Island. They formed a nonprofit organization, the Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust, Inc., in 2017. The Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of...
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    the location of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, one of the two federally recognized representative bodies of the Wampanoag people. The museum ground itself...
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  • state government. Members claim to be descendants of the Wampanoag, an historic Indigenous people of Massachusetts. The organization has approximately 300...
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    Crispus Attucks (category Wampanoag people)
    Attucks was a free man or an escaped slave, but most agree that he was of Wampanoag and African descent. Two major sources of eyewitness testimony about the...
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    Dorcas Honorable (category Wampanoag people)
     1770 – 1855) was Nantucket Island's last Indigenous inhabitant. She was of Wampanoag origin, and was raised speaking the Massachusett language, a language...
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  • Hiacoomes (category Wampanoag people)
    Hiacoomes (~1610s – 1690) was a Wampanoag American Indian from the island of Martha's Vineyard, (Wampanoag: Noepe), who in 1643 became the first member...
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    inhabited by Wampanoag people, when Martha's Vineyard was known in the Massachusett language as Noepe, or "land amid the streams". In 1642, the Wampanoag numbered...
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    Weetamoo (category Wampanoag people)
    Weethao, Weetamoe, Wattimore, Namumpum, and Tatapanunum, was a Pocasset Wampanoag Native American Chief. She was the sunksqua, or female sachem, of Pocasset...
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    Annawan (chief) (category Wampanoag people)
    Annawan (died 1676) was a military leader and advisor of the Wampanoag. As head captain under sachem Massasoit, Annawan fought wars with rival New England...
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