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In the 1600s, the Wampanoag Nation had about 70 thousand people living in 67 villages. This map shows some of them. The large print shows the Wampanoag name of a village. The small print gives the modern name.
hen the Pilgrims arrived at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, they met native peoples who had lived in the area for thousands of years. Their name, Wampanoag, means “People of the First Light.” This name was chosen because they lived on the east coast and they received the light of dawn before anyone to the west.
MASSACHUSETTS
PAMET Truro
TITICUT Bridgewater
PATUXET Plymouth
NAMASKET Middleborough
COHANNET
Taunton
AGAWAM Wareham
NAUSET Wellfleet
SEEKONK
ASSONET
MANOMET Bourne
MATTAPUSIT
Swansea
APTUXCET
POCASSET Fall River
POKANOKET
CUMMAQUID Barnstable
MANNAMOYIK
Bristol
MASHPEE
Chatham
ACUSHNET New Bedford
RHODE I S LAND
AQUIDNEK
SAKONNET Little Compton
ATLANT I C OCEAN
NAUSHON
CAPOWAK Martha’s Vineyard
Can you find the region shown on the map at right on a U.S. map?
CHAPPAQUIDDIK
AQUINNAH Gay Head
NANTUCKET
Based on map developed by Nanepashemet for the Plimoth Plantation Wampanoag Program. Recreated with permission of Plimoth Plantation, Inc.
This trouble-making turkey has taken some words out of these paragraphs. Can you find where each word belongs?
Celebrations of thanksgiving in North America did not _______ with the Pilgrims at __________ in 1621. Gratefulness was (and is) a very important part of ________________ life. The Wampanoag have held ___________ to give thanks since ____________ times. And, not just for a good _____________. The Wampanoag give thanks for the birth of a child and other good fortune. In fact, giving thanks was the __________ reason for Wampanoag celebrations.
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