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The Wampanoags: A Native American Tribe

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A Native American tribe, the Wampanoags, once a documented population of 12,000. They were located in southeastern Massachusetts, including the coastal islands of Martha’s Vineyard. Unfortunately the Wampanoag tribes language died in the mid 19th century, but in recent years the language is being revived through a language reclamation project. Luckily this Native American language has the ability to be revived despite the horrors that the language and the tribe went through. According to the American Indian Heritage Foundation, the Wampanoag population started to diminish from diseases not long before the arrival of the pilgrims. Once the settlers moved in toward Native American territory, the Wampanoag chief Massasoit interacted with the
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