All posts tagged "Wampanoag"
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6.0KArts and LeisureIndians Loaned Their Words to English. Now They Want Their Languages Back.
New England Indians loaned many words and place names to the American English language. Now some of them are getting their own...
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8.8KMassachusettsMyles Standish and the Lost Colony of Massachusetts
In March 1623, leaders of the struggling Plymouth Plantation dispatched their paid military leader Myles Standish to a coastal settlement 25 miles...
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8.1KMassachusettsBenjamin Roberts Fights To Integrate Massachusetts Schools—and Wins in 1855
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
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19.2K1Business and LaborIn 1603 Martin Pring Escapes New England with His Tail between His Legs
Much of what the early European explorers learned of the New England coast they owe to Martin Pring. And Martin Pring owes...
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