Wampanoag

The Wampanoag were a Native American tribe. They lived in what is now the American region of New England. This is part of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are part of the Northeast Woodlands. The Wampanoag tribe helped the English settlers to survive after they arrived in the Mayflower.

They caught a bacterial infection called leptospirosis or Weil's syndrome in the early 17th century. It caused many deaths and damaged their society greatly, though their descendants still survive today.

Wampanoag Media

• Block's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term "New Netherland"

• Wôpanâak Nation c 1620-01.svg

  Map of Wampanoag territory c. 1620

• Eliot Bible.jpg

  Title page of the first Bible printed in the United States, translated in the Massachusett language by John Eliot

• Plymouthkolonie.jpg

  Plymouthkolonie

• Old Indian Meetinghouse.jpg

  "Old Indian Meeting House" built in 1684 in Mashpee, Massachusetts, the oldest Indian church building in the United States

• Philip King of Mount Hope by Paul Revere (cropped).jpeg

  Philip, King of Mount Hope, 1772, by Paul Revere

• Plimoth Plantation Native American Wigwam.jpg

  Wampanoag educator at Plimoth Patuxet