The Wampanoag People

Explore the following websites:

• Daily Life in 1621
  http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/daily_life/index.htm

  Learn about clothes, food, houses, learning, chores, and games. Part of Scholastic's Plimouth: 1621 exhibit.

• Interview with "Fast Turtle," Russell Peters
  http://content.scholastic.com/browse/subarticle.jsp?id=3034

  Part of Scholastic's Plimouth: 1621 exhibit.

• You are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving
  http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html

  Visit Plimouth Plantation in 1621 with two students who are descendents of the Pilgrims and Wampanoag people as your guides. This site is full of information presented in a fun, video format. Requires Flash Player 6 (free download available).

• Homework help from Plimouth Plantation
  http://www.plimoth.org/kids/homeworkHelp/

  Explore the links on the left for lots of information.

• Boston Children's Museum Wampanoag site
  http://www.bostonkids.org/educators/wampanoag.html#

  Click on the link for "People of the First Light website" to get to the exhibit. Visit the section called "What You Need to Know." Be sure to look at the links at the bottom of each page; they link to lots more good information. Contains some audio clips, but the sound quality is not great.

Search the Grolier Online Encyclopedia

Check with your teacher to see if this encyclopedia is available.

Think about these questions as you research:

• Describe your life before the arrival of the English settlers.

• What were your first impressions of the settlers?

• How has having the settlers living nearby changed your life?

• Do you think the English settlers have the right to settle in Plymouth? Do you believe they are "uncivilized"? Why or why not?

• What is the role of religion in your life? How does it affect your interaction with the English settlers?

• What roles do men, women, and children play in your society?

• Did you provide any assistance to the settlers when they were struggling? If so what did you do and why?

• Do you think your two cultures can live together peacefully? What would you have to do to make this happen?

• Conflicts sometimes arise between your two groups. Give an example of a conflict, what caused it, and what happened. How was it resolved? Do you think similar problems will arise in the future?

• How do your two groups communicate? How do you exchange goods and services without a common system of money?

• How has disease affected your group?

Just for Fun

• Plimouth Plantation: Just for Kids
  http://www.plimoth.org/kids/

  Coloring pictures, recipes, and learn to talk like a pilgrim