1. Wampanoag - Noun
2. Wampanoag - Proper noun
A member of a Native American tribe located in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
A member of a current Native American nation currently consisting of five affiliated tribes.
Wampanoag
The extinct Algonquin language of the Wampanoag tribe.
Disestablishment of the Mashpee Wampanoag reservation would re-open a shameful and painful chapter of American history of systematically ripping apart tribal lands and breaking the federal government’s word. Source: Internet
Taught among other survival skills how to plant corn by English-speaking Squanto (a member of the confederation of Wampanoag tribes), the Pilgrims wanted to celebrate both their survival and their successful harvest. Source: Internet
The southern New England Native communities who are participants in the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project are Mashpee Wampanoag, Aquinnah Wampanoag, Herring Pond Wampanoag, and most recently, Mashantucket Pequot. Source: Internet
In 1974, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council was formed to articulate the concerns of those with Native American ancestry. Source: Internet
Unlike the people in the English colony, the staff at the Wampanoag Homesite are not re-enactors. Source: Internet
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe that welcomed the pilgrims in 1620 has been fighting with the federal government over the removal of the tribe’s 321 acres of communal land from trust status. Source: Internet