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Sakonnet Sachem Awashonks relates how the English do not like dealing with women chieftains like her. “The colonists challenge my authority,” Awashonks says. “They think they should be dealing with a man.” The English go so far as to demand that the male Wampanoag tribal members usurp the authority of female sachems. And, as far […]

PLYMOUTH – The Indigenous experience in America has long been overshadowed by the European one, as American history classes focus primarily on English Pilgrims arriving on the shores of Plymouth in 1620, and the attending colonization. Efforts to balance that narrative with the history of Wampanoags and other natives who lived and thrived in America […]