Pokanoket
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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.
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- Name
- History
- List of Pokanoket leaders
- Historical territories
- Map points
- Descendants
- Notes
- References
- External links
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 Hope in Bristol, Rhode Island. Later the term Pokanoket broadened to refer to the peoples and lands governed by Massasoit and his successors, which were part of the Wampanoag people in what is now Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pokanoket” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.