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Wampanoag
[ wahm-puh-nawg, wahm-puh-noh-ag ]
noun
plural Wampanoags, (especially collectively) Wampanoag
- a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
- the Eastern Algonquian speech of the Wampanoag people, a dialect of Massachusett.
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yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of Wampanoag1
An Americanism dating back to 1670â80, from Narragansett (spoken in Rhode Island, west of the Wampanoag); literally âthose of the east; easterners,â equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *ˇÉ˛šÂˇąč˛š˛Ô ( w )- âdawnâ + -´Ç¡ˇÉ- âperson ofâ + *-aki plural suffix
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It pushes back on the narrative that the first Thanksgiving was a happy meal between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
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Last yearâs parade added a float designed in consultation with Wampanoag artists and clan mothers.
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The Mashpee Wampanoag have lived on Cape Cod for thousands of years, and have 170 acres of reservation land within the boundaries of Mashpee.
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It is Wampanoag children who will allow Wôpanâak to thrive as they learn and grow.
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U.S. schoolchildren learn to trace the holiday to Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and celebrated the autumn harvest with the Wampanoag peoples.
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