You Are The Historian, Unit 2: Leadership and Diplomacy, Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Scholarship & press
Following the epidemics of the 1610s, the Pokanoket were left in a weakened position after disease decimated Pokanoket and other Wampanoag communities but left their Narragansett neighbors unharmed.
The English took the opportunity to enlist the Pokanoket and other Wampanoag communities as allies.
Historical Information, United American Indians of New England. Self-published
Many villages right here in this area were laid waste by European diseases brought by trading ships before the pilgrims arrived.
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah): home and Our Tribe, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Self-published
With the European settlers came much adversity for our tribe - disease that virtually wiped out whole villages
Nation once included all of Southeastern Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island, encompassing over 67 distinct tribal communities.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' (Commonwealth of Massachusetts print of 1898; superscripts such as “ye” are flattened in this text), William Bradford (text via Project Gutenberg). Primary record
wherin thousands of them dyed, they not being able to burie one another; ther sculs and bones were found in many places lying still above ground
of this place, & scarce any left alive besids him selfe

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