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Massasoit Massasoit, statue by Cyrus Edwin Dallin; in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Massasoit

Wampanoag chief
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Massasoit (born c. 1590, near present Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.—died 1661, near Bristol) was a Wampanoag Indian chief who throughout his life maintained peaceful relations with English settlers in the area of the Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. Massasoit was the grand sachem (intertribal chief) of all the Wampanoag Indians, who inhabited parts of present Massachusetts and Rhode Island, particularly the coastal regions. In March 1621—several months after the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth—Massasoit journeyed to...

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