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America Before the Pilgrims: Wampanoag Tribe and History
Before the Mayflower arrived in 1620, thousands of indigenous nations lived on the northeast coast of North America. The pilgrims aboard the Mayflower arrived in the territory of the Wampanoag Nation. Learn more about Wampanoag history and...
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This Land is Their Land: A Conversation with David Silverman and David Vanderhoop | MV Museum
A conversation between David Silverman and Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal elder David Vanderhoop around the myth of Thanksgiving and how it fits into broader misconceptions of our country and its Indigenous history. Originally presented as...
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Wampanoag Village
The Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum, Mashpee, MA.
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Squanto
Squanto (l. c. 1585-1622) was the Native American of the Patuxet tribe who helped the English settlers of Plymouth Colony (later known as pilgrims) survive in their new home by teaching them how to plant crops, fish, hunt, and generally acclimate...
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Samoset
Samoset (l. c. 1590-1653, also given as Somerset) was the Abenaki Native American who first approached the English settlers of Plymouth Colony (later known as pilgrims) in friendship, introducing them to natives Squanto (l. c. 1585-1622...
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King Philip Meeting with Colonists
King Philip (Metacomet) of the Wampanoags, (1638-1676), meeting colonists, print by S. N. Wood, 1911.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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Powhatan Confederacy
The Powhatan Confederacy (c. 1570-1646 or 1677) was a political, social, and martial entity of over 30 Algonquian-speaking Native American tribes of the region of modern-day Virginia, Maryland, and part of North Carolina, USA formed under...
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We Are Still Here: Four Hundred Years of Wampanoag History
We Are Still Here explores 400 years of Wampanoag history and how the arrival of European colonists would forever change their way of life. While the Native American tribe on the east coast of America would form an uneasy alliance with...
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Wampanoag Wetu
Reconstruction of a Wampanoag home at Plimoth Plantation.
Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
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Native American Enslavement in Colonial America
Slavery was practiced by the Native Americans before any Europeans arrived in the region. People of one tribe could be taken by another for a variety of reasons but, whatever the reason, it was understood that the enslaved had done something...