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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: King Philip's War, Native American museums in Massachusetts, Native American tribes in Massachusetts, Native Americans connected with Plymouth Colony, Wampanoag people, Narragansett people, Nipmuc, Bristol, Rhode Island, Joseph Judson, Wheeler's Surprise, Benjamin Church, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, John Sassamon, Massasoit, Patuxet tribe, Boylston Street Fishweir, Squanto, Metacomet, Samoset, Nipmuc Nation, Epenow, Edward Hutchinson, Great Swamp Fight, Massachusett language, Nashaway people, Pocomtuc, Smith's Castle, Angel of Hadley, Wamsutta, Matoonas, Wabanaki Confederacy, Fruitlands Museum, Pennacook, Nine Men's Misery, Josiah Winslow, Thomas Savage, Thomas Wheeler, John Hoar, Muttawmp, Nauset, Mount Hope, Chaubunagungamaug Reservation, Naumkeag people, Ponkapoag, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Chickatawbut, North American Indian Center of Boston, Hobomok, Hassanamisco Nipmuc, Battle of Bloody Brook, Battle of Turner's Falls, John Alderman, Indian Burial Ground, List of American Indian Reservations in Massachusetts, Paomet, Succonet. Excerpt: The Wampanoag (English pronunciation: Wopanaak in the Wampanoag language; alternate spellings Wompanoag or Wampanig) are a Native American nation which currently consists of five tribes. In 1600 the Wampanoag lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as within a territory that encompassed current day Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Their population numbered about 12,000. Historical Wampanoag leaders included: Block's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term "New Netherland"In 1616, John Smith erroneously referred to the entire Wampanoag confederacy as the Pakanoket. Pakanoket continued to be used in the earliest colonial records and reports. The Pakanoket tribal seat was located near present-day Bristol, ...
