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Wampanoag

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Wam·pa·no·ag  (wämp-ng)
n. pl. Wampanoag or Wam·pa·no·ags
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, with present-day descendants in this same area.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Wampanoag, a variety of Massachusett.

[Narragansett, those of the east.]

Wampa·noag adj.
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Noun1.Wampanoag - a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the PilgrimsWampanoag - a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims
Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast


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COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION Let's see if we have this straight: The Wampanoag tribe is claiming the construction of the Cape Wind project would threaten or destroy their religion by impeding sacred rituals that require an unblocked view of the sunrise over Nantucket Sound.
They also examine how these spheres interact with dominant society, drawing on examples from such peoples as the Lakota and Wampanoag in the United States, the Warli and Gond in India, the Maori in New Zealand, and Mayan-descent and Zapotecas people in Mexico.
The native Wampanoag men showed the survivors how to plant corn and in October 1621 the Pilgrims celebrated their first harvest at Plymouth Plantation and which today we mark on our calendars as Thanksgiving Day.
 
 
 
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