Metacomet
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Metacomet, also known as Pometacom, Metacom, and by his adopted English name King Philip, was sachem to the Wampanoag people from 1662–1676. He was the second son of the sachem Massasoit, after his ol
Metacom as imagined by Paul Revere in 1772
The 1629 seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony portraying a Native American man with the words "Come over and help us" coming from his mouth. According to Jill Lepore, this was an allusion to the Macedonians of Acts 16:9 of the New Testament and the inspiration for the name Philip.
John Alderman and Benjamin Church next to Metacomet's corpse, as imagined by an American painter in 1903
The site of King Philip's death in Miery Swamp on Mount Hope
Wampanoag
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The Wampanoag, also rendered Wôpanâak, are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands currently based in southeastern Massachusetts and formerly parts of eastern Rhode Island. Their histor
Metacomet
…in Massachusetts – August 12, 1676), also known as Pometacom, Metacom, and by his adopted English name King Philip, was sachem (elected chief) to the Wampanoag people from 1662–1676. He was the second son of the sachem Massasoit (c. 1581 – 1661), after his older brother Wamsutta (c. 1634–62). Metacomet became…
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais (right), Chairperson of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah with a MassDOT engineer
Title page of the Eliot Indian Bible (completed in 1663), a bible translated into the Massachusett language and the first Bible printed in British North America.
Seal of Plymouth Colony
"Old Indian Meeting House" built in 1684 in Mashpee, Massachusetts, the oldest Indian church building in the United States