wampanoag

Everyday

1. A Native American people of what is now Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the USA. tree →
2. Their language, also called Wôpanâak. tree →

In the lessons

In US history lessons, the Wampanoag met the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, helped them survive, and shared the harvest feast remembered as the first Thanksgiving. Lessons today also tell how they later lost land and lives in wars and disease, and that the Wampanoag still live there today.

Examples

• The Wampanoag lived in New England long before the Pilgrims came. tree →
• Tisquantum, also called Squanto, was a Wampanoag man. tree →
• The Wampanoag showed the settlers how to grow corn. tree →
• Many Wampanoag people still live in Massachusetts. tree →
• The Wampanoag language is being taught again. tree →
• Massasoit was a leader of the Wampanoag. tree →

Note

Say it «WAM-pa-NO-ag». Always a capital W. Use it as a people's name, respectfully; the people are not only in the past, they live today.