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Here First - Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine (Paperback)
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Here First - Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine (Paperback)
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On March 16, 1621, Samoset, a sagamore of the Wawenock, cemented
his place in history. He was the first Indigenous person to make
contact with the colonists at Plymouth Plantation, startling them
when he emerged from the forest and welcomed them in English. The
extraordinary thing about Samoset's story is that he was not from
Plymouth. He was not even Wampanoag, or Patuxet, who lived in the
area. Samoset's home was more than 200 miles away on the coast of
present-day Maine. Why was he there? And why was he chosen to make
contact with the English settlers? In addition to that first
meeting in Plymouth, Samoset's life coincided with several
important events during the period of early contact with Europeans,
and his home village of Pemaquid lay at the center of
Indigenous-European interactions at the beginning of the 17th
century. As a result he and his people, the Wawenock, were active
participants in this history. But it came at great cost, and the
way of living that had sustained them for centuries changed
dramatically over the course of his lifetime as they endured war,
epidemics, and a clash of cultures. This is their story.
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