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In the 1600s , the Wampanoag Nation had about seventy thousand people living in 67 villages . This map shows some of them . The large print shows the Wampanoag name of a village . The small print gives the modern name . hen the
Pilgrims arrived at what is now Plymouth , Massachusetts , they met native peoples who had lived in the area for thousands of years . Their name , Wampanoag , means “ People of the First Light .” This name was chosen because they lived on the east coast and they received the light of dawn before anyone to the west .
Can you find the region shown on the map at right on a U . S . map ?
This trouble-making turkey has taken some words out of these paragraphs . Can you find where each word belongs ?
COHANNET
TITICUT
SEEKONK ASSONET MATTAPUSIT
POKANOKET POCASSET
Bristol
RHODE ISLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
AQUIDNEK
Swansea
Taunton
SAKONNET
Little Compton
Bridgewater
Fall River
ACUSHNET
New Bedford
NAMASKET
Middleborough
AQUINNAH Gay Head
PATUXET Plymouth
AGAWAM Wareham
MANOMET
NAUSHON
CAPOWAK
Martha ’ s Vineyard
Based on map developed by Nanepashemet for the Plimoth Plantation Wampanoag Program . Recreated with permission of Plimoth Plantation , Inc .
Celebrations of thanksgiving in North America did not _______ with the Pilgrims at __________ in 1621 . Gratefulness was ( and is ) a very important part of ________________ life .
Bourne
APTUXCET
MASHPEE
The Wampanoag have held ___________ to give thanks since ____________ times . And , not just for a good _____________. The Wampanoag give thanks for the birth of a child and other good fortune . In fact , giving thanks was the __________ reason for Wampanoag celebrations .
CUMMAQUID Barnstable
CHAPPAQUIDDIK
PAMET
NAUSET
Wellfleet
A TLANTIC OCEAN
Truro
MANNAMOYIK Chatham
NANTUCKET
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