Wampanoag in a sentence

The southern New England Native communities who are participants in the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project are Mashpee Wampanoag, Aquinnah Wampanoag, Herring Pond Wampanoag, and most recently, Mashantucket Pequot.

According to the tribe’s oral tradition, Moshup turned the Wampanoag into whales, maybe even killer whales, but he also ate broiled whales, and threw them at the cliffs on the coast for the Wampanoag to eat.

An exhibit of modern Native American art from the 1940s through the 1970s began a six-city tour last year at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, Mass., on Cape Cod, minutes from a community of Wampanoag.

In this June 25, 2018, photo, a wooden sign advises motorists of the location of Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal lands in Massachusetts.

The tradition of Thanksgiving in America dates back to the first Pilgrim and Wampanoag feast of 1621.

When I think of Thanksgiving, I seldom think of the Pilgrims and Wampanoag people dining together (likely sans turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie) in Massachusetts in 1621.

Jannette Vanderhoop, a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), is challenging two-term incumbent Tom Murphy.

She inherited the Great Rock property from her husband, Elisha Amos, a Wampanoag Native who left it to her in his will.

When The Mayflower arrived, there were at least two Wampanoag tribe members that spoke English, due to traveling to Europe and back,” states information from Rutgers University’s guide.

Disestablishment of the Mashpee Wampanoag reservation would re-open a shameful and painful chapter of American history of systematically ripping apart tribal lands and breaking the federal government’s word.

Finklea was a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.

It could be even better if the conservation group would work with the Wampanoag people to preserve and caretake this land.

Taught among other survival skills how to plant corn by English-speaking Squanto (a member of the confederation of Wampanoag tribes), the Pilgrims wanted to celebrate both their survival and their successful harvest.

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe that welcomed the pilgrims in 1620 has been fighting with the federal government over the removal of the tribe’s 321 acres of communal land from trust status.

Aquinnah remains a community inhabited by descendants of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) where we have survived and remained for centuries.

Exhibit includes panels and video recreations featuring Wampanoag actors.

In an interview with the Daily before the event, further commented that Wampanoag and Massachusset presence is not adequately addressed.

More importantly, Squanto served as an ambassador to the area’s Narragansett and Wampanoag Indians.

She said accurate accounts of the holiday are “welcomed and needed” to describe the complex interactions between the pilgrims and Wampanoag and help readers comprehend the issues presently affecting Native American populations.

The annual feast is in honour of the “first” Thanksgivings in America, in 1619 in Virginia, and in 1621, when colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts, later known as the Pilgrims, shared a meal with the Wampanoag Indians, who were native to the land.