The Wampanoag people had various foods they ate in a season. The foods they ate were kinda normal and kinda not, they ate berries, duck, octopus,and deer. In the spring they ate otter, beaver, and sometimes muskrat. In the summer they would collect seabird eggs. In the fowl they would harvest crops and hunt water fowl. In the winter they would hunt deer and mouse and they would trap beaver, rabbit, and muskrat.
Back a few hundred years ago the Wampanoag people spoke different languages than English which we speak today. They have not created a name for the language, but we do know one word Wuneekeesuk which is a friendly greeting that means “Good day!”
Today we have about four to five thousand Wampanoag in New England. There are three primary groups, Mashpee, Aqunnah, and Manomet , with several others getting together again as well. We aslo have recently found some of our relations in the Caribbean islands. These people that were sent into slavery after a war between the Wampanoag and English.
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