Pokanoket was used in the earliest colonial records and reports as the name of the tribe whose leaders (the Massasoit Ousemequin until 1661, his son Wamsutta from 1661–1662, and Metacom from 1662–1676) led the Wampanoag confederation at the time the English began settling southeastern New England. In 1616, John Smith correctly referred to one of the Wampanoag tribes as the Pokanoket. The word is a Lenape term for "Easterners" or literally "People of the Dawn", based on information provided by the people whom Block encountered in the lower Hudson Valley. Wampanoag is probably derived from Wapanoos, first documented on Adriaen Block's 1614 map, which was the earliest European representation of the Wampanoag territory. īlock's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term " New Netherland" Jessie Little Doe Baird, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, founded the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project in 1993. Some survivors continue to live in their traditional areas and maintain many aspects of their culture, while absorbing other peoples by marriage and adapting to changing economic and cultural needs in the larger society. Historical records largely ignored the tribe after the late 18th century, although its people and descendants persisted. Many male Wampanoag were sold into slavery in Bermuda or the West Indies, or on plantations and farms run by colonists in New England. More than 50 years later, King Philip's War (1675–1676), led by Metacom, chief sachem of the Wampanoag people, and his allies against the colonists resulted in the death of 40 percent of the surviving tribe. Researchers suggest that the losses from the epidemic were so large that colonists were able to establish their settlements in the Massachusetts Bay Colony more easily. The epidemic killed many people, profoundly affecting the Wampanoag population. Modern research, however, has suggested that it may have been leptospirosis, a bacterial infection which can develop into Weil's syndrome. Their population numbered in the thousands 3,000 Wampanoag lived on Martha's Vineyard alone.įrom 1615 to 1619, the Wampanoag suffered an epidemic, long suspected to be smallpox. They lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the beginning of the 17th century, at the time of first contact with the English colonists, a territory that included the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head in Massachusetts are federally recognized, and the Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Tribe, Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, Assawompsett-Nemasket Band of Wampanoags, and Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe are recognized by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the 17th century, they were a large confederation of at least twenty-four known and named tribes, but today Wampanoag people encompass five officially recognized tribes. The Wampanoag / ˈ w ɑː m p ə n ɔː ɡ/, also rendered Wôpanâak, are a Native American people. Massachusett, Historically Agawam, Nauset, and Naumkeag MassDOT Engineer, left, and Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Chairperson of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah (Gay Head), right, at Martha's Vineyard.īristol County, Massachusetts, Dukes County, Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Mashpee, Massachusetts, and Nantucket, Massachusetts
0 kommentar(er)
