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Wam⋅pa⋅no⋅ag

  [wahm-puh-noh-ag]
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–noun, plural -ags, (especially collectively) -ag.
1. a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
2. the Eastern Algonquian speech of the Wampanoag people, a dialect of Massachusett.
Origin:
1670–80, Americanism; < Narragansett, equiv. to Proto-Algonquian *wa⋅pan(w)- dawn + -o⋅w- person of + *-aki pl. suffix, i.e., easterners
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Wam·pa·no·ag   (wäm'pə-nō'āg)   
n.   pl. Wampanoag or Wam·pa·no·ags

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, with present-day descendants in this same area.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Algonquian language of the Wampanoag, a variety of Massachusett.


[Narragansett, those of the east.]
Wam'pa·no'ag' adj.
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Wampanoag

Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who formerly occupied parts of what are now the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and adjacent islands. They were traditionally semisedentary, moving seasonally between fixed sites. Corn (maize) was the staple of their diet, supplemented by fish and game. The tribe comprised several villages, each with its own local chief, or sachem.

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