The Pokanoket are a group of Wampanoag people and the village governed by Massasoit, chief sachem of the Wampanoag people.
Statue of Massasoit, or Ousamequin (17th-century Pokanoket leader), in Plymouth
Territories and Boundaries of Pokanoket Tribe
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
Pokanoket
…The Pokanoket (also spelled Pakanokick) are a group of Wampanoag people and the village governed by Massasoit (c. 1581–1661), chief sachem of the Wampanoag people. The village was located on what is now called Mount…
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.
"Old Indian Meeting House" built in 1684 in Mashpee, Massachusetts, the oldest Indian church building in the United States