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When Wampanoag Chief Massasoit celebrated Thanksgiving in 1621 as a guest of the Plymouth Colony pilgrims, his tribe occupied an area that ran from Cape Cod north almost to Boston. Within 50 years, land-greedy colonists had forced the Indians into a corner of their territory, some 20,000 acres in an area known as Mashpee on the southwestern shore of Cape Cod. After another two centuries, the state of Massachusetts decided to turn the reservation into a township, and the Indians naively sold off their land, bit by bit. Today 500 Wampanoag are still living in Mashpee (total...
Linden was predominantly Protestant and officially dry, but the Massasoit House lay conveniently over the town line in wet Revere. Paul, who established a lifelong regard for alcohol in his teens, speaks with romantic awe of the Massasoit House crowd, which included his Uncle Reuben. They were kindly, lovable, generous, liberal, fair, colorful and manly...
Presented anonymously to Harvard's Naval Training School, a three-foot statue of Massasoit has been set up in the Union. In ceremonies of Indian fashion, at which Commander Macgowan officiated, the statue was received by Lieutenant E. O. Elmer, Jr. and Ensign Richard M. Carrigan in behalf of the student body...
Following the review, a statue, "The Spirit of Massasoit," was presented to Harvard in "the interest of good marks," by the 800 trainees...