#wootonekanuske

[theirmarks]

Pometacom. Metacomet. Metacom. King Phillip. His mark.

Wampanoag. His home at Pokanoket. Born 1638. A Wampanoag sachem by 1662, after his brother's suspicious death. A diplomat and strategist. Led a confederation of Eastern Woodlands tribes in a rebellion against colonizers in the First Indian War (or King Philip's War), 1675-1676. Fought to reclaim sovereignty, resist subjugation and dispossession, and for #landback.

Assassinated August 12, 1676; dismembered upon his death. Colonizers displayed his head on a spike at so-called Plymouth for over two decades. 

His kin: father Ousamequin, the Massasoit. A brother, Wamsutta. Wamsutta’s partner, Namumpum (later called Weetamoo). Pometacom’s partner, Wootonekanuske.

"Quitclaim by Phillip." Rehoboth, Mass. 1668. Seen @ John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI.

[thoughtorigami]

A short history of Thanksgiving and Princess Wootonekanuske, Charlotte Mitchell, the last lineal descendant of Massasoit. Massasoit, Chief of the Wampanoag tribe, is believed to have helped the Pilgrims greatly, preventing their starvation early on.

[thebigkelu]

a Native woman posed as Wootonekanuske, the wife of King Philip (Metacomet) - Glasier - 1924

[royal-diaries-podcast]

Metacom, also called Metacomet, King Philip, or Philip of Pokanoket

Metacom, also called Metacomet, King Philip, or Philip of Pokanoket, (born c. 1638, Massachusetts—died August 12, 1676, Rhode Island), sachem (intertribal leader) of a confederation of indigenous peoples that included the Wampanoag and Narraganset. Metacom led one of the most costly wars of resistance in New England history, known as King Philip’s War (1675–76).

Metacom married Weetamoo's younger sister Wootonekanuske. It is unclear how many children they had or what happened to them all of them. But it’s believe that Wootonekanuske and one of their sons were sold to slavery in the West Indies following the defeat of the Native Americans in what became known as King Philip's War.

Metacom was the second son of Massasoit, a Wampanoag sachem who had managed to keep peace with the English colonizers of Massachusetts and Rhode Island for many decades. Upon Massasoit’s death (1661) and that of his eldest son, Wamsutta (English name Alexander), the following year, Metacom became sachem. He succeeded to the position during a period characterized by increasing exchanges of Indian land for English guns, ammunition, liquor, and blankets. He recognized that these sales threatened indigenous sovereignty and was further disconcerted by the humiliations to which he and his people were continually subjected by the colonizers.

In June 1675, violence erupted when three Wampanoag warriors were executed by Plymouth authorities for the murder of John Sassamon, a tribal informer. Metacom’s coalition, comprising the Wampanoag, Narraganset, Abenaki, Nipmuc, and Mohawk, was at first victorious. However, after a year of savage fighting during which some 3,000 Indians and 600 colonists were killed, food became scarce, and the indigenous alliance began to disintegrate. Seeing that defeat was imminent, Metacom returned to his ancestral home at Mount Hope, where he was betrayed by an informer and killed in a final battle. He was beheaded and quartered and his head displayed on a pole for 25 years at Plymouth.