Wampanoag Native Americans By Lynnwood Elementary

Teachers: Mrs Comfort and Ms Lambard Librarian: Mrs Kolstoe

2nd grade Nov 2017

Who are the Wampanoag people?

• Many Native American tribes lived on the American Continent for thousands of years

• The name, Wampanoag, means People of the First Light. They are a group of Native Americans that have been living on the East Coast for a very long time, long before the Europeans came.

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Geography

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The Wampanoags lived by the ocean (see orange on the map) on the land that is today Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Wampanoag: the people of the first light

We learn about the environment

• The Wampanoag used what they found in nature around them

• We are creating a mural to better understand the environment in which the Wampanoag people lived

• We learn about the animals that live around and we draw them to put on our mural

We learn about the Wampanoag people

• The Wampanoag hunted animals for food and other uses. They used the fur and skin to make clothing.

• They used symbols on their bodies and clothing.

Some Symbols used by Wampanoag

Learning about the Wampanoag people

Animals skins and furs

• They used the fur of the animals to make clothes, pouches and blankets

Wampanoag clothing This picture from the Plimoth outdoor museum is a good example of the kind of clothing that Wampanoag would wear. Men wear loin cloth and deer skin leggings. Both men and women wear jewelry an decorative clothing for special occasions.

What life was like

We watch a video (Scholastic News Nov 2017)about 2 girls who go to camp at Plimoth Plantation and show visitors what life was like in the 1600s

Each student has created their own Wampanoag

Wampanoag clothes was made out of deer skin. They had many hairstyles.

Learning about the animals

• We read and learn about the animals that lived on the land : deer, rabbits, beavers, raccoons, ducks were the most common animals hunted by the Wampanoags, even bears.

Creating the mural

Ms Lambard help us create our mural

Adding the animals to the mural

Winter animals on the left Summer and fall animals on the right

We added the animal to the environment

Shelter

• The Wampanoag lived in villages of small round houses called wetus

• Wetu is the word for "house" in the Wampanoag tribe. They are small houses, usually 8-10 feet tall, made of wooden frames covered with mats and sheets of birch bark during the summer.

Shelter

• We make wetus for our Wampanoag village

Longhouse for the winter was more inland.

Wetu village for summer near water

We add gardens to the summer village

The summer village with garden

What we learned

The Wampanoag lived by the ocean. The Wampanoag fished. The Wampanoag hunted animals The Wampanoag used the fur and skin. The Wampanoag burned fires. The Wampanoag made clay pots. The Wampanoag smoked fish to save for winter.

Wampanoag were fishermen and farmers

Picture from the Plimoth Plantation Wampanoag village

Wampanoag men were hunters and fishermen. Wampanoag women took care of the children, planted the garden, gathered herbs and berries and prepared the food.

What was in the Wampanoag Garden?

These are the 3 main food planted in the garden. Children would scare the crows away and help with the harvest.

Summer Village with Wetus

Wampanoag made canoes

• Wampanoag made canoes by carving out the inside of a tree trunk. They called their canoes “mishoons”

• They used eel traps to get fish

Longhouse for the winter Wetu village for summer

Winter

• During the winter Wampanoag live in Long houses up to 200 feet long and 20 feet wide. A long house can contain a whole clan, as many as 60 people.

The longhouse, for the winter

Winter Activities • During the winter, the men would prepare or

repair tools and women would make clothing and other useful things.

• Both men and women took part in storytelling, artwork and music, and traditional medicine.

Wampanoag Water Drum

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Wampanoag Stories

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Other interesting facts

• Wampanoag children did have cornhusk dolls and toys such as miniature bows and arrows and hand-held ball games.

• Like many Native Americans, Wampanoag mothers traditionally carried their babies on their back. Cornhusk doll

Leadership

• The Wampanoag tribe leader was called a sachem. Each village had one. A sachem was the leader of that village. The job of sachem was always kept in the family and passed from generation to generation. Usually from father to son but sometimes the daughter inherited the job. The Wampanoag thought that men and women were equal but had different jobs that they were good for.

Celebrations

• “Cranberry Day is the most important and meaningful holiday of the year for us. Wampanoag Language Note: Wild Cranberries are called sasumuneash in Wampanoag. Our people have always had a cranberry harvest celebration. Cranberry Day is one of the many thanksgiving celebrations that happen throughout the year.”

The Wampanoag were respectful

• The Wampanoag treated the land and animals with respect and only took what they needed.

Our Wampanoag paper people

What we learned

• The Wampanoag loved the land. • The Wampanoag lived with their families in

longhouses inland during the winter. • The Wampanoag kept warm with fire. • The Wampanoag used animal furs to keep

warm. • During the spring, summer and fall the

Wampanoag moved closer to the water in smaller houses called wetus.

We watched a video of a Wampanoag village at Plimoth Plantation

2 girls from the Wampanoag tribe showed us how the Wampanoag lived in the 1600s (Scholastic News, Nov 2017). The Wampanoag still live with us today. They live modern lives, but keep their traditions. Their consider it an honor to show the traditions of their ancestors.

Wampanoag today

• Today there are still Wampanoag living with us. The Wampanoag people are keeping their traditions alive. They do many of the things they did before the pilgrims came. Wampanoag artists still use East coast clay to make beautiful pottery.

• Elders of the tribe teach young people. • Some Wampanoag even go to camp at the

Plimoth plantation to show how they lived long ago.

Wampanoag Pow Wow

The Wampanoag are keeping their traditions with special drums for celebrations like Pow Wow (gatherings) today

What we learned

• Wampanoag were fishermen and hunters • Women and children would gather clams and

shells by the ocean, berries and herbs on land. • Women and children tended the gardens: they

grew corn, squash and beans. • They lived in wetus near the water in the

summer and in longhouses inland in winter. • The Wampanoag have a great respect for

nature and animals around them.

Sources of information

Online Sources

• http://www.bigorrin.org/wampanoag_kids.htm • Two main Wampanoag tribes today, the Gay Head

Wampanoag and the Mashpee Wampanoag. On their sites you can learn about the Wampanoag people past and present.

• https://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/who-are-wampanoag

• http://www.plimoth.org/