Native American tribe who met the PilgrimsBy Mary Guerino

Where do they live?

4,000 Wampanoag Some live in their traditional homelandSome live where their jobs and lifestyles have

taken themTwo major tribesMashpee on Cape CodAquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard (only group

recognized by the federal government

Mashpee Wampanoag Chief

Annawom WeedenMashpee Tribal

MemberTeacher and

Advisor for the Children’s Museum on Wampanoag history and customs

In this picture he is dressed in regalia for a dance he will perform at a Pow Wow

Gathering places

Mashpee Herring run

Can you see in this picture where the materials for a wetu come from?

Mashpee smoke houseWhat is a smoke house used for?

HerringIn fact, the herring are as

important to the Wampanoag as the buffalo to the Plains people or salmon to the people of the

Northwest. A typical Mashpee

Wampanoag herring meal consists of herring, corn meal dumplings, boiled potatoes with diced salt pork, all served with fresh or preserved fruits.

Meeting House Mashpee

Aquinnah Tribe Located in

Martha’s Vineyard

Only Wampanaog Tribe recognized by the Federal Government

Important Tribal MembersLinda Coombs is

the Wampanoag teacher at Plimouth Plantation

Also helps out at the Children’s Museum

Tobias Vanderhoop

Land returned to Mashpee Tribe

CranberriesThe cranberry is a Native

American wetland fruit which grows on trailing vines like a strawberry. The vines thrive on the special combination of soils and water properties found in wetlands. Wetlands are nature's sponges; they store and purify water and help to maintain the water table. Cranberries grow in beds layered with sand, peat and gravel. These beds are commonly known as bogs or marshes and were originally formed as a result of glacial deposits.

Natural Cranberry Bogs

In Massachusetts we call the place where cranberries grow a BOG. Natural bogs evolved from deposits left by the glaciers more than 10,000 years ago. These deposits were left in impermeable kettle holes lined with clay. The clay prevents materials from leaching into the groundwater. Rocks and other organic materials were collected by the glaciers. When the ice finally melted deposits of heavy materials were layered on top of the clay.

One Room School House

What jobs do Wampanoags have today?

Shop ownersArtistsTeachersScientistsHistorians

Clam ProductionCultivate Clams in

beds off the shores of Martha’s Vineyard

As scientists try different ways to promote better clam growth

Moshup’s CellarWho was

Moshup?How was

Martha’s Vineyard formed?

Plimouth Plantation

What is a reproduction?

Burning a canoe

Wampanoag Village

Wampanoag Village

Excerpts from the Millennium Celebration in Falmouth

Kathy Sharp Frisbee The turn of the Millennium

is a perfect time to pay tribute to the Wampanoag People and Other Native Peoples of this continent and the Western Hemisphere, for in the context of the past 1,000 years and of all time they are an incredible civilization, that has played a significant role in the evolution of Mankind. Long before Romans conquered the West, before early Christianity, the pyramids in Egypt, and the rise and fall of many rulers throughout other regions of the world, The Native Peoples lived and thrived here for over 30 millennia. Despite staggering blows from other civilizations over the course of the last 500 years, The Native Peoples, and their heritage, and their culture survived and, gratefully, they are still here. Among their countless contributions to Mankind--in art, architecture, medicine, commerce, science, spirituality and philosophy--their greatest are their resilience, endurance and strength as The Creator's first people of this land.

Love Love is something you and I

must have.We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look confidently at the world. We turn inward and begin to feed upon our own personalities, and little by little we destroy it ourselves. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

" Chief Dan George from the book In Beauty May I Walk, Words of Peace and Wisdom by Native Americans. Edited by Helen Exley

President John F. Kennedy 1961--Introduction to The American Heritage Book of Indians. "For a subject

worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television. American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all . . . When we forget great contributors to our American history--when we neglect the heroic past of the American Indian--we thereby weaken our own heritage . . . America has much to learn about the heritage of our American Indians. Only through this study can we as a nation do what must be done if our treatment of the American Indian is not to be marked down for all time as a national disgrace."

--Eric B. Schultz and Michael J. Tourgias in the book King Philip's War. A Martyr to the Idea of Liberty

"By the time of the United States' centennial of 1876, Philip's standing as a noble patriot was secure: Antiquarian Samuel Adams Drake wrote of Philip, "In his own time he was the public enemy whom any should slay; in ours, he is considered a martyr to the idea of liberty not differing with that of Tell and Toussaint, whom we call heroes