Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, Wampanoag Nation
The First Thanksgiving Tribe

The Indian Tribe that
     Met the Pilgrims in 1620 . . .
          Fed the Pilgrims and kept them alive in the bitter winter cold . . . 
                Kept the Pilgrims under protection from the Nausets before they settled at Plimouth . . .
                     Defied the Narragansett Indian threat to murder the Pilgrims . . .               
                           Met Roger Williams with the words "What Cheer Netop" (Providence 1636) . . .
                                Fought and died for the colonies in 1777 . . .
                                      Fought and died for the United States in 1812 . . .
                                           is still among you today.
                                   

                                          We are the Seaconke Wampanoags.
                                         The First Thanksgiving Tribe.

"What Cheer Netop"

 

 

Many Rhode Island Indian Tribes were disenfranchised in 1978
after the Narragansetts told Congress there were no other
Indian Tribes in the state but them.  Congress believed them.
Click Here for a full copy of the
Rhode Island Indian Claims Settlement Act
and note especially page 113

 

Tribal Contacts 
Chief Wilfred "Eagle Heart" Greene
Germaine "Blue Dove" Greene
Peter "Thinking Bear" Bauer
Bob "Swift Owl" Cooper