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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wampanoag , or Pokanoket , (search)
Wampanoag, or Pokanoket,
Indians; one of the most powerful of the Massachusetts tribes of the Algonquian nation.
Massasoit was their sachem when the English came to the New England shores.
Their domain extended over nearly the whole of southern Massachusetts, from Cape Cod to Narraganset Bay, and at one time the tribe numbered 30,000.
Just before the landing of the Pilgrims a terrible disease had reduced them to less than 1,000.
While Massasoit lived the Wampanoags were friendly to the English; but a growing discontent ripened into war in 1675, led by King Philip, a son of Massasoit, which involved many of the New England Indians.
The result was the destruction of the tribe.
King Philip's son, while yet a boy, with others, was sent to the West Indies and sold as a slave.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wampum, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)