How to Use Wampanoag in a Sentence

Wampanoag

noun

• The Wampanoag also brought deer and fruits, including pumpkin.
  — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
• Instead, the Wampanoag Indians would have brought lobsters, deer meat, clams, and eels.
  — Ashley Leath, Country Living, 30 Oct. 2022
• Members of the Wampanoag were not formally invited as a gesture of good grace.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
• The community has been the home of the Wampanoag people for thousands of years, and their headquarters remain here to this day.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• For example, the ancient Wampanoag people relied on the ponds for sustenance.
  — Mary Forgione, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• Writing this series gave me a lot of opportunities to think about my own tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag.
  — Paige Vega, Vox, 14 Oct. 2024
• People tend to believe the Pilgrims of Plymouth shared a meal with the native Wampanoag people in the area.
  — Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
• The Wampanoag were nearly wiped out, and that part of the Thanksgiving story didn't make it into the elementary lessons.
  — Russell Contreras, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
• The Native American Squanto also taught the settlers how to form an alliance with the local Wampanoag tribe.
  — Pia Lauritzen, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
• Native Americans harvested the oysters here for centuries, the Wampanoag people continuing to assert their right to do so today.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 22 Jan. 2025
• In 1621, Pilgrims shared a feast with the Wampanoag people, which was recounted in a letter written by settler Edward Winslow.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Turkey is on the menu in most homes that celebrate the holiday, but the first Thanksgiving held by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag in 1621 likely had no turkey at all.
  — William Lambers, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
• Native Americans also harvested cranberries from wild bogs near the ponds, gatherings that continue to take place today among the Wampanoag of Aquinnah who live on the island.
  — Mary Forgione, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• But there was joy in having something to teach them, to share with them, to connect them not only to a generational tradition but also to the history of the land, where the Mashpee Wampanoag used to harvest from these same waters — and still do.
  — Kim Gooden, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• There is indeed evidence of a meal shared between Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth colony (in what is now Massachusetts) and Wampanoag people in late 1621.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
• Most of us are probably familiar with the story of the Pilgrims who sat down for a meal with the Wampanoag tribe; however, there are essentially two historical attributes for this Thanksgiving holiday.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 25 Nov. 2024
• The first Thanksgiving is traditionally recognized as the 1621 feast in Plymouth, shared between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
• The town, the ancestral home of Wampanoag Tribe, was formerly called Gay Head, named by settlers for its brightly colored clay cliffs, before the residents voted to restore its original name in the late 1990s.
  — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 29 June 2023