Wampanoag

friend and a potential foe, a Native American tribe called the Wampanoag. They were believed to have a trustful relationship with one another but where did their friendship go so wrong? Their friendship came to an end since the Europeans took advantage of the Wampanoag, they had rules to their friendship, and they established an unfair legal system. Although they trusted one another the Europeans took advantage of the Wampanoag any chance they got. In Document E, the Europeans

King Philip’s War, also known as the Metacomet’s War, was a war between the Wampanoags and the Puritans in 1675. Philip’s father, the leader of the Wampanoags, gave the English acceptance and nurtured them. He would also constrain the other Indians from harming the English. He helped the English by teaching them how to plant corn and he gave them abundance of land. Philip’s father had kept peace between the Indians and the English. After the death of Philip’s father, leadership was passed down to

followed by the Strawberry Festival, followed by the Green Corn Festival, followed by the Harvest Festival, and followed by the mid-winter feast, and most importantly the “First Thanksgiving”. It’s true if you say that the friendship between the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims was true. Although the friendship was true, it did not last long. As time went by, more and more English men came to North America and didn’t need any help from the Natives as much as the original Pilgrims did. Many of the people

Rhode island in 1590. He had 2 brothers named akkampion and quadequina. As a child he was originally named Ousamequin meaning yellow feather. At the age of 33 massasoit became tremendously ill. Massasoit was as very blessed, He was chief of the Wampanoag.

American communities, and this created tension between the two. Massasoit however was able to keep the peace and gain power by granting the Pilgrims land in a numerous amount of deals in which he gained a fortune and a legacy. As a new generation of Wampanoag, one without Massasoit’s

(http://www.virginiaplaces.org/native American/anglopowhatan.html). The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth (in present day Massachusetts) in 1620. Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe first had contact with Europeans through fishing and trading vessels along the New England coast. Most encounters with the English were friendly so the Wampanoag had no reason to think that the Pilgrims, from the Mayflower, were a potential threat to their way of life. Indeed Massasoit had good reason to hope that the English

in New England in 1676 and ended in 1676. Metacomet, also known as King Philip, was the son of Chief Massasoit, who was a principal leader of the Wampanoag in the early 1600’s; a tribe in North America that existed in America long before the Europeans arrived. He is also known as Metacom, Metacomet or Pometacom, names that he was given by the Wampanoag tribe. Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower, a ship that transported the first English separatists, founded the Plymouth colony at New Plymouth

in result almost half of the colonist died from diseases which they had been struck with while on the voyage from England. As spring approached, the Wampanoag Indians befriended the pilgrims as a result taught them how to grow crops such as corn. The pilgrims were unfamiliar with the soil and did not know what kind of crops would grow. The Wampanoag tribe also taught the pilgrims to hunt and fish, a necessity for survival. With the skills the pilgrims learned, the fish they caught were used as fertilizer

why it started, the first day it was celebrated, when it first became a holiday, Thanksgiving facts, who was involved it the first celebration. The first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 “History of Thanksgiving.” In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared a feast known as the first Thanksgiving. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving an official holiday to be held every November. The Thanksgiving story started with a group of English explorers that sailed home to England

Unfortunately this is what happened to Massasoit, the chief of the Wampanoag tribe. Massasoit had the choice to either kill the Pilgrims when they landed in Plymouth which was where the Wampanoag tribe was located, or to let the Pilgrims live and maintain good relations with them. Massasoit contemplated long and hard about this decision because he knew there could possibly be deadly consequences to the whole Wampanoag tribe. He ultimately decided to let the Pilgrims stay because their supplies