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Wampanoag may refer to:
- the Wampanoag people, a Native American nation which currently consists of five tribes
- the Wampanoag language
- Wampanoag Country Club
- Wampanoag Mills, an historic textile mill site
- Wampanoag Royal Cemetery, an historic colonial Native American cemetery in Middleboro, Massachusetts
Usage examples of "wampanoag".
Captain Miles Standish, the leader of a group of religious fanatics from England, who believed in the imminent arrival of Armageddon in Europe, invited a local tribe of Algonkian Indians, the Wampanoag, to join them for a dinner celebrating the good fortune that had seen their immigrant community established in New England.
American Employment Program, which in 1999 sponsored a presentation by storyteller Penny Gamble Williams, the tribal chief of the Chappaquiddick Indian Nation of the Wampanoag Indian Nation, relating tales passed down through the generations.
He was the most distinguished of a number of contemporary sachems who reigned over the Pequods, the Narragansetts, the Wampanoags, and the other eastern tribes at the time of the first settlement of New England--a band of native untaught heroes who made the most generous struggle of which human nature is capable, fighting to the last gasp in the cause of their country, without a hope of victory or a thought of renown.
Impossible even to imagine that Mohawk and Mahican had once wandered here - yes, and Wampanoag, Narraganset, Pequot, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Abnaki, Malecite, Micmac.
This celebrated savage can read and write, and is quite an orator, like Metamora, or the last of the Wampanoags.
Beginning about 1662, he stirred rebellion among the Narragansetts and the Nipmucks as well as his own Wampanoags.
The Wampanoags, Narragansetts, and Nipmucks lost a great many of their number.