Wampanoag Life Ways, Darius Coombs

Symposium: First Contact - Indigenous Peoples and the First English Settlers at the Quaker Meeting House, July 19, 2019. A presentation of the Nantucket Historical Association.
Presented by Darius Coombs, Director of Wampanoag and Eastern Woodlands at Plimoth Plantation
The word Wampanoag means "People of the First Light." This Native nation dates back over 12,000 years and is located in southern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the Islands, and eastern Rhode Island. The nation once numbered more than seventy communities and 100,000 people. The daily life of these communities was similar and they shared a common language. Each community governs itself. The Wampanoag are still living throughout their ancestral homeland and keeping numerous ceremonies alive. Darius Coombs is Mashpee Wampanoag and has deep family ties to both Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. He will talk about Wampanoag life ways, the maritime skills that connected the islands with the mainland, and historical events throughout the 17th century.

[@TreeBug88]

Still teaching the people 4 to 500 years later

[@vickithompson5861]

Watched you on C-span, UNBELIEVABLE informative!!👏👏👏Thank you for teaching me all this information that SHOULD have been taught in schools.Not just skimmed across, but truly taught with integrity and grace. 💞

[@ShannoninOregon]

I can't imagine the grief of 1, being kidnapped and taken away from my family and community, but then coming back in 5 years to find that they all died from disease brought from the ships in the first place. What immense pain and loss.

[@carolweaver3269]

My husband found that Chief Wampanoag was his many great( I think seven would need to check) grandfather.(1600'and 1700's etc)
I am in the Daughters of the American Revolution and my husband did the genealogy of all our families and he found this. We did not understand it all so much until I read an article in the American Spirit Magazine and how the Chief traded for Rhode island and many lands to give the White men. Also, they had the first Thanksgiving together with the White men. We live now in NYS and near the Mohawk Indian area! The place of Saint Kateri Techwitha. later she moved to Canada and died rather young. Her family died(parents and siblings) of Small Pox and she was brought up by her Uncle and Aunt. He did not want her to become a Christian but she learned from a Priest in this area. It was not easy for her. She always had the scars of the Pox bur survived, and when she did pass, it is said her face became clear and smooth.
I would have to search the info better to explain exactly how this was written up. You must somehow be relative to my husband? This is a small world

[@lownrgchicagovaporwave1022]

Mam , who Is Chief Wampanoag ? sounds made up to be honest ...i tried looking up this Chief and no results .... Chiefs of the 1600's and 1700's would have been well recorded by the English and Dutch who were interacting with these people at that time would have made mention of this Chief Wampanoag .... the name sounds so made up ....No native names himself such a egotistical name that is also a European bastardization of the real name for Wampanoag ....

[@michellehiggins9303]

I am honored to come across your videos! I just watched “The Wampanoag Way”and enjoyed seeing your daughters be fun loving responsible little kids! I just shared your both of your videos with my mother. This is truly enlightening for me! 🧘🏽‍♀️🕌🙏🏽💜💙💚💫💫💫💫

[@JohnEyeVideo]

Saw your photo bigger than life at Logan airport as I was coming home from CA. Was nice to see an old friend. Get in touch. I have a few ideas I’d like to run by you.

[@KittenoftheBroccoli]

Thank you for helping with my research essay

[@jdearr1]

42:00 I just realized how that fact about the seafood put the Wampanoag into a different category. Is that the root of the government's view of whether they were under gov. jurisdiction as of 1934? It can't be, or SOMEBODY with any sense at all would have put an end to this opposition to tribal land. And thanks for this excellent video!

[@alexanderross7264]

Everyone on the island I live has Wampanoag ancestry, and have always been the same as when we left New England, as a community, being the same. But I'd like to reintroduce the language back to my community.

[@CreativeIntuitive]

Great discussion

[@DerekPicard]

Great video 👍🏼

[@carolweaver3269]

The Three Sisters!