Wampanoag facts for kids
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.
They 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 for kids
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Block's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term "New Netherland"
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Title page of the first Bible printed in the United States, translated in the Massachusett language by John Eliot
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Tisquantum helped the Plymouth colonists learn to cultivate corn.
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Seal of Plymouth Colony
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"Old Indian Meeting House" built in 1684 in Mashpee, Massachusetts, the oldest Indian church building in the United States
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Philip, King of Mount Hope, 1772, by Paul Revere
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Wampanoag educator at Plimoth Plantation
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Amos Hoskins, an Aquinnah Wampanoag Whaling Captain
