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Here first, Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine, Jody Bachelder

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Here first, Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine, Jody Bachelder

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Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

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Here first

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bibliography

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1259402288

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Jody Bachelder

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Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine

Summary

"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."--, amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Author's note -- Indigenous people and place names -- Introduction: Plymouth, Massachusetts March 16, 1621 -- Part I. Samoset's early life and precolonial times, approximately 1590-1605 -- 1. Background -- 2. Spring -- 3. Summer -- 4. Fall -- 5. Winter -- 6. The European invasion, 1492-1604 -- Part II. Meeting Europeans, 1605-1625 -- 7. The kidnapping, 1605 -- 8. The Wawenock in England, 1605-1606 -- 9. The return to Pemaquid, 1606-1607 -- 10. The Popham colony, 1607-1608 -- 11. Fishing and war, 1607-1615 -- 12. The great dying, 1616-1619 -- 13. Getting to Plymouth, 1619-1620 -- 14. Meeting the colonists, 1621 -- 15. Settlers come to Maine, 1621-1624 -- 16. The Samoset deed, 1625 -- Part III. Keeping the peace, 1626-1653 -- 17. Puritans, pirates, and the pox, 1626-1634 -- 18. Alcohol, guns, a rebellion, and a hurricane, 1635 -- 19. Changes in the land, civil war, recession, and the Jesuits, 1636-1653 -- Epilogue: Death, war, and the destruction of Pemaquid, 1653-1696

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