WAMPANOAG Definition & Meaning

Wampanoag

[wahm-puh-noh-ag, wahm-puh-nawg]

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plural

Wampanoags ,

plural

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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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Wampanoag¹

An Americanism dating back to 1670–80, from Narragansett (spoken in Rhode Island, west of the Wampanoag); literally “those of the east; easterners,” equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *�ɲ�·�貹�� ( w )- “dawn” + -��·��- “person of” + *-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 year’s 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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