Word: wampanoag
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While they feasted on traditional Native American fare such as cornbread and baked beans, and while some attendees sang music of the local Wampanoag tribe, the assessment of modern-day indigenous life in the region wasn’t entirely upbeat...
...College, which was the first brick-building built in Harvard Yard, first opened its doors in 1655 to six Native American students from the local Wampanoag and Nipmuc tribes...
Chief F. Ryan Malonson of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah also delivered a “Message to the Ancestors,” during which he asked the crowd gathered in the Yard to join together and hold hands in order to form a large circle that he said was suggestive of the power of community and the cyclical nature of time...
...addition to Iacoomes, the Wampanoag can claim the only person ever to graduate from Harvard’s ill-fated Indian College, Iacoomes’ classmate, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, who did participate in Commencement...
Over the last 350 years, Vanderhoop said, the name Joel Iacoomes was little known among the Wampanoag...