Wopanaak

The Wopanaak, or Wampanoag, were Native communities in southeastern Massachusetts, eastern Rhode Island, Cape Cod and nearby islands. An epidemic in 1615–1619 devastated their communities before English colonization.

Their leader Massasoit maintained an agreement with Plymouth, but his son Metacom became sachem in 1662 as relations deteriorated. In King Philip's War of 1675–1676 Metacom and allied peoples fought New England; he was killed at Mount Hope in 1676, and many Wampanoag were killed or sold into slavery after the conflict.