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    The Wampanoag' is a Native American individuals in North America. They were a free alliance comprised of a few tribes. Numerous Wampanoag individuals today are selected in two governmentally perceived tribes, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, or four state-perceived tribes in Massachusetts. In the start of the seventeenth century, at the season of first contact with the English, the Wampanoag lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, a domain that incorporated

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    unique functions in each community. For both the Iroquois and Wampanoag, their relationships to land embodied their lifeways; their land was their identity, their resource, their claim to power and sovereignty, and more. While the Iroquois vested leadership powers in the institution of the Great League of Peace, the Wampanoag depended on the leadership of powerful sachems such as Massasoit and Metacomet. However, both the Iroquois and Wampanoag used leadership in their tribes to preserve peace to a degree

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    Wampanoag Myth

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    The Wampanoag have a couple legends on how they began. One popular legend is about Moshup, the giant Wampanoag, who lived long before any European settlers arrived. He decided that he would live on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Moshup taught the Wampanoag methods to survival, and a new way of life. In return, the Wampanoag people had given M oshup a pipe, from which the ashes had formed the island of Nantucket. In reality, not much history is given before the European settlers came, though it

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    time (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 2016). King Philip wasn’t even a king during this war, and there was no involvement from a King Philip. The name King Philip came from the son of Massasoit that the English called and also the chief of the Wampanoag tribe, his name to the tribe was Metacomet, Metacom, or Pometacom (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 2016). Many factors led up to this war. The Native Americans did not always show hate to the colonists, but once Metacomet came to power

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    One of those endangered languages is Wampanoag language spoken by natives americans throw new england. I chose this language because I found the struggle to keep Wampanoag language alive very interesting. I have a house on cape cod, which was once a territory of the Wampanoag tribe. This local endangered language was all around me and I never knew what it was until I saw an interesting video in english composition. This video gave a brieff history on the wampanoag tribe and how their territory has been

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    How did generational differences between white settlers and Wampanoag affect the outcome of colonization? Examine the differences between Massasoit and his son, Philip, as well as Edward Winslow and his son, Josiah. The differences between the white settlers and Wampanoag people made it both difficult to trade, but also good for both civilizations as they were able to benefit from the new goods afforded to each of them. The Wampanoag people were able to benefit from the surplus of guns they received

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    the start of the film After the Mayflower: We Shall Remain, the English and the Native Americans celebrated the first Thanksgiving together in 1621. Both groups of people seemed trusting of each other and showed personal respect. At this time the Wampanoag Indians had the power and chose to use it to form a treaty with the weak English Pilgrims. The two groups shared everything and traded their assets with each other. As the film continued there was an obvious change in power to the English with more

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    hostile Indian nations. The English and Spanish faced particularly fierce resistance from the Wampanoag and Pueblo peoples in present day New England and the American Southwest. The Wampanoags and Pueblos both revolted against European colonization and conquest in 1675 and 1680 due to attacks on their sovereignty, attacks on their welfare, and mass death. The Pueblos were more successful than the Wampanoags because they gained from the revolts while the New England Nations lost everything during King

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    Massasoit Research Paper

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    Massasoit was one of the people at the first Thanksgiving. Massasoit is the chief of the Wampanoag. Massasoit was born in 1590 near Bristol, Rhode Island and he died 1661 near Bristol, Rhode Island. Massasoit actually means “Great Sachem” or “leader.” His children are three sons and two daughters. There is a photo showing a Profile Rock in Assonet, Massachusetts in the 1902. Massasoit forged critical political and personal have tied with the colonial leaders John Carver, Stephen Hopkins, Edward

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    King Philip Metacom, known as King Philip to English colonists, was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy during the 17th century. Years after his birth, Metacom would be the cause of King Philip’s war, which resulted in the death of more than six hundred settlers, as well as the destruction of multiple colonies, and his own death. Metacom was born circa 1638, and while historians are unsure of the exact location of his birth, it is thought that he was born in either Massachusetts or Rhode

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