Wampanoag homelands

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Eastern Woodlands Indigenous territory First Nations homeland Indigenous homeland Native American homeland Wampanoag territory ancestral territory cultural region historic region traditional territory tribal homeland

Wampanoag homelands are the ancestral territories of the Wampanoag people in what is now southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, including areas such as Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Wampanoag territory	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Eastern Woodlands Indigenous territory ⓘ First Nations homeland ⓘ Indigenous homeland ⓘ Native American homeland ⓘ Wampanoag territory ⓘ ancestral territory ⓘ cultural region ⓘ historic region ⓘ traditional territory ⓘ tribal homeland ⓘ
associatedWith	Wampanoag culture ⓘ Wampanoag language ⓘ Wampanoag traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ coastal and marine ecosystems ⓘ
borderedBy	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Buzzards Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Cape Cod Bay ⓘ
contains	barrier beaches ⓘ coastal forests ⓘ estuaries ⓘ offshore islands ⓘ salt marshes ⓘ
hasHistoricalSignificance	location of the 1620 English settlement at Plymouth ⓘ region affected by King Philip’s War ⓘ site of early contact between Wampanoag people and English colonists ⓘ
includes	Buzzards Bay ⓘ surface form: Buzzards Bay region Cape Cod ⓘ Martha's Vineyard ⓘ surface form: Martha’s Vineyard Mount Hope Bay ⓘ surface form: Mount Hope Bay region Nantucket ⓘ Narragansett Bay islands ⓘ Plymouth area ⓘ
locatedIn	Massachusetts ⓘ New England ⓘ North America ⓘ Northeastern United States ⓘ Rhode Island ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States southeastern Massachusetts ⓘ
partOf	territory of the Wampanoag Confederacy ⓘ
recognizedAs	ancestral lands in contemporary land acknowledgments ⓘ
timePeriod	pre-contact era to present ⓘ
traditionalHomelandOf	Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe ⓘ Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) ⓘ Wampanoag people ⓘ
usedFor	agriculture ⓘ fishing ⓘ hunting ⓘ shellfishing ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Philip (King Philip) → countryOfCitizenship → Wampanoag homelands ⓘ

Weetamoo → countryOfCitizenship → Wampanoag homelands ⓘ

Patuxet → partOf → Wampanoag homelands ⓘ

Pokanoket region → partOf → Wampanoag homelands ⓘ

this entity surface form: Wampanoag territory