Massasoit of the Wampanoags

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With a brief commentary on Indian character; and sketches of other great chiefs, tribes and nations' also a chapter on Samoset, Squanto and Hobamock, three early native friends of the Plymouth colonists.

By
Alvin G. Weeks
Past Great Sachem of the Improved Order of the Red Men of Massachusetts and President of the Massasoit Memorial Association.
1919

To The
Memory of Massasoit
Great Sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, 1620-1661, who, by his friendly disposition towards the whites, and his faithful observance of his treaty obligations to them, has earned the undying gratitude of humanity, this work is respectfully dedicated.

• Algonquins

• Introduction

• Forward

• Memorial

• Wampanoags

• Massasoit

  • Stern Virtues of Men

    • Indian Character

  • Cononicus' Challenge

    • Squanto

  • Memorable Treaty

    • Samoset

  • Colonists get the best end of the Bargain

    • Hobamock

  • John Billington, Lost in the Woods

    • Nine Chiefs

  • Identity of Sachems

  • Massasoit Very Ill

  • Character of Sachem

  • Massasoit's Family

  • Suspicious of Wamsutta

  • Massasoit's Children

  • Massasoit's Children's Children

  • Three Women

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