The Wampanog Indians Lived In The Northeast Region Of The Island. They Settled T

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Term Paper Title	The Wampanog Indians Lived In The Northeast Region Of The Island. They Settled T
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The Wampanog Indians lived in the northeast region of the island. They settled there in 1620. They were the first people on Nantucket. They made their houses out of sapling trees, animal skin, and bones, Nantucket was a good fishing and hunting ground. Nantucket was small and wooded. The Wampanoags lived in peace until the white people came and gave them a disease called yellow fever. The last Wampanoag died in 1854. His name was Abrem Quary.

What is the history of the Wampanoags?
by 7th Graders Beth Valero and Jen Stafford

It was the Wampanoag Indians who shared their Thanksgiving harvest with the Pilgrims in the 1620s. It was the Wampanoags who gave the Pilgrims indian corn, squash, and beans, thereby insuring the survival of the first permanent European settlement in New England, the Colony of New Plymouth. The Wampanoags taught the Pilgrims about the lay of the land and how to protect themselves from the harsh winters.

The history of the Wampanoag Indians began long before the 17th century and long before any European set foot on the North American continent. Twelve thousand years ago, the earliest inhabitants of northeastern North America were leaving marks on the land. They were known to their neighbors as the pokanoket which means "place of clear land." The Indians told stories and passed their legends down from generation to generation. They even had a legend about how Nantucket was formed.

The first encounter of the Europeans of the Wampanoag may have been written down in 1524. They grew a few staple crops for food: corn, beans, and squash. Farming, hunting, fishing, and foraging were essential to the day -to- day, and year-to-year survival of the Wampanoag. They survived by understanding and using the wild plants and animals of their region. Some of the same plants and animals are still on Nantucket today.

By the beginning of the 20th cent...

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