NOUN
- a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims
How To Use Wampanoag In A Sentence
- Of course, the First Thanksgiving included not only the Pilgrims, but also their Wampanoag guests.
- Just like the all the land we proudly call America, settlers stole the whole clambake idea from Native Americans, specifically the Wampanoag people of southeastern Massachusetts. Operation Clambake « PubliCola
- The film also shows how Jessie tapped into the work of other Algonquian languages as well as the Wampanoag corpus in order to reconstruct the grammar and build a dictionary and pedagogical materials for the language. Nataly Kelly: A Language Comes Home for Thanksgiving
- Massasoit, the leader of the local Wampanoag Indians, decided to share local agricultural techniques with the "Pilgrims", thus enabling the community to survive.
- About ninety Wampanoag Indians joined the celebration.
- The Wampanoag were members of a widespread confederacy of Algonkian-speaking peoples known as the League of the Delaware.
- All the while, the Wampanoag, including their "sachem," or leader, Massasoit, were observing these sickly looking visitors, frail from hunger and disease, knowing they could wipe them out with one fell swoop. IndyStar.com Top Stories
- In a subsequent mission for Governor William Bradford that summer, Squanto was captured by Wampanoag while gathering intelligence on the renegade sagamore, Corbitant, at the village of Nemasket site of present-day Middleborough, Massachusetts. Archive 2009-11-22
- It is also officially a Native American township under the guardianship of the Wampanoag tribe.
- To find out, explore a re - created Wampanoag home site, just a short walk from Plimoth.