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Weetamoo (pronounced Wee-TAH-moo) (c. 1635–1676), also referred to as Weethao, Weetamoe, Wattimore, Namumpum, and Tatapanunum, was a Pocasset Wampanoag Native American Chief. She was the sunksqua, or female sachem, of Pocasset tribe, which occupied contemporary Tiverton, Rhode Island in 1620.
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Weetamoo was born between 1635 and 1640 on the shores of what is known today as Cape Cod. Her father Corbitant was the sachem of the Pocasset people. The Pocasset were one of the communities of the Wampanoag Confederacy, a group that lived throughout the territory known today as New England.
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Mar 29, 2021 · Weetamoo (l. c. 1635-1676, also known as Namumpum, Tatapuanunum, Wattimore, Weetthao) was a female chief of the Pocasset Wampanoag tribe as well as a War Chief in King Philip's War (1675-1678), during which she established herself as a great warrior, and, further was a highly regarded bead-worker/storyteller and ritual dancer.
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Weetamoe, the daughter of Corbitant, the sachem of the Pocasset Wampanoag, was most likely born in Mattapoiset. She became a sunksqua or leader of the Pocasset with a principal residence at Quequechan (present-day Fall River, Massachusetts). She married five times into prominent Indian families in the region.
Massasoitdied and was succeeded by his 1st son, Wamsutta, the one who had been nicknamed “Allexander” (sic) by the whites.1. Allexander Wamsuttawas married to Squaw Sachem Weetamooof Pocasset. He sold Attleboro lands to the Plymouth colony. This sachem would be signing the land sale documents presented to him by the English sometimes with anA.
Sunksquaw of the Pocassets . Name variations: Namumpam; Tatatanum; Tatapanum; Weetammo; Wetamou; Wetamoe; Weetamore; Queen Wetamoo; Squaw Sachem of the Pocasset. Born around 1650 on tribal lands of the Pocassets (now parts of Tiverton, Rhode Island, and Fall River, Massachusetts); daughter of a Wampanoag Federation sachem, Chief Corbitant of ...
Weetamoo (unknown–1676) was the squaw-sachem (or warrior-leader) of the Pocassets. She exercised substantial power in the Wampanoag and Narragansett communities and was Metacom's sister-in-law.
