Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, with a present-day population in this same area.
- noun The Algonquian language of the Wampanoag, a variety of Massachusett.
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- proper noun A
Native American tribe located in southeasternMassachusetts andRhode Island . - proper noun The
extinct Algonquin language of the Wampanoag tribe. - proper noun A current Native American
nation currently consisting of five affiliated tribes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Wampanoag were the first Native Americans to adopt an alphabetic writing system, which meant that they left behind many 17th and 18th-century legal documents.
Nataly Kelly: A Language Comes Home for Thanksgiving Nataly Kelly 2011
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Like other Algonquians in southern New England, the Wampanoag were a horticultural people.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2007
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The board will also help Patrick enter an agreement with the Mashpee Wampanoag, which is given a preference under the law to open a casino in Southeastern Massachusetts.
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"We'd like to think that because we are natives and from Massachusetts, it would make good business sense to say the Wampanoag are the ones to get first consideration for a casino in Massachusetts," Tobey said.
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Recognition is a good thing, as the Wampanoag are the folks who facilitated the survival of the Plymouth pilgrims.
Planet Moron 2008
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"Wampanoag," answered the other, with a fierce flashing of his eagle eye; and laying his hand firmly on his breast, "the night the snows were red with the blood of my people, is here! my mind is dark: none of my race have since looked upon the place where the lodges of the Narragansetts stood, and yet it hath never been hid from our sight.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"Wampanoag," rejoined Conanchet, fiercely, "I have scorched the spot with the lodges of the Yengeese.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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In Massachusetts, the leader of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe on Cape Cod, which is seeking to build a billion-dollar casino, stepped aside recently and apologized for lying about his military record.
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Wampanoag, hand-picked him as his successor for tribal chief.
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Indian affairs endorsing federal recognition for the Wampanoag tribe,
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