Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, with present-day descendants in this same area.
- n. A member of this people.
- n. The Algonquian language of the Wampanoag, a variety of Massachusett.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- proper n. A Native American tribe located in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
- proper n. The extinct Algonquin language of the Wampanoag tribe.
- proper n. A current Native American nation currently consisting of five affiliated tribes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims
Etymologies
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.
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Like other Algonquians in southern New England, the Wampanoag were a horticultural people.
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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.
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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.
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"Wampanoag," rejoined Conanchet, fiercely, "I have scorched the spot with the lodges of the Yengeese.
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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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