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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

FACTS ABOUT WOMEN

The women cultivated varieties of the "three sisters," corn (maize), beans and squash as the staples of their diet, supplemented by fish and game caught by the men.

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The Wampanoag, like many indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, have a matrilineal system, in which women controlled property.

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CROP FACTS

Watermelon and sunflowers can also be found in the gardens. They also have traditionally relied on harvesting nature’s natural bounty—picking blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, and hunting for wild game—to keep themselves, as well as the earth, healthy.

Corn, Beans and Squash are three of the main traditional crops for the Wampanoag. The farmers planted the three crops together, rather than just plant one crop in one field the way that European farmers did.

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RELIGIOUS FACTS

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The Wampanoags religion was called Spiritualism. They thanked Mother Earth, animals, plants, birds, fish, and all living things for the gifts they gave to the Wampanoag. For example, when a hunter killed a deer, they thanked the deer for giving the Wampanoag food to eat and skin for making
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After 1650, John Eliot and other Puritan missionaries proposed a humane solution to the Indian "problem": converting native peoples to Christianity.

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HEALTH FACTS

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From 1615 to 1619 the Wampanoag suffered an epidemic, long suspected to be smallpox, but recent research alternatively theorizes that it was leptospirosis, a bacterial infection also known as Weil's syndrome or 7-day fever.

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They were seasonal people living in the forest and valleys during winter. During the summer, spring, and fall, the Wampanoag to the rivers, ponds, and ocean to plant crops, fish and gather foods from the forests.

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Many Wampanoag people today are enrolled in two federally recognized tribes, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head.

Because of many changes in North America, the Wampanoag cannot live as their ancestors did. They've adapt but still continue to live in the way of the People of the First Light.

There are three primary groups – Mashpee, Aquinnah, and Manomet – with several other groups forming again as well.

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MOST IMPORTANT FACTS

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Today, about 4,000-5,000 Wampanoag live in New England.

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Our name, Wampanoag, means People of the First Light.

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The Wampanoag are one of many Nations of people all over North America who were here long before any Europeans arrived, and have survived until today.

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IN CONCLUSION

In conclusion, the Wampanoag were great Native Americans with an exuberant culture. Although they are still around today, they are not to their former glory as they were.

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RESOURCES

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Google, Wikipedia,
pulimoth.org

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AUSTIN ESTES AND JAVON COLBERT

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