Wampanoag facts

The Wampanoag were a Native American tribe. They lived in what is now the American region of New England. The Wampanoag tribe helped the English settlers to survive, after they arrived in the Mayflower.

The caught a bacterial infection called leptospirosis or Weil's syndrome in the early 17th century. It caused a many deaths and damaged their society greatly, though their descendents still survive today.

Images

  • Tribal Territories Southern New England

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  • Wpdms aq block 1614

    Block's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term "New Netherland"

  • Eliot Bible

    Title page of first known Bible printed in what is now the United States, translated in the Massachusett language by John Eliot

  • Squantohowwellthecornprospered

    Tisquantum helped the Plymouth colonists learn to cultivate corn.

  • Plymouthkolonie

    Seal of Plymouth Colony

  • Old Indian Meetinghouse

    "Old Indian Meeting House," built in 1684 in Mashpee, is the oldest surviving Native American church building in the United States.

  • Philip King of Mount Hope by Paul Revere

    Philip, King of Mount Hope, 1772, by Paul Revere. Revere designed this pygmy-like image to make King Philip look repulsive.

  • Plimoth Plantation Native American Wigwam

    Wampanoag educator at Plimoth Plantation

  • WampanoagWhaler

    Amos Hoskins, a Aquinnah Wampanoag Whaling Captain


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