Massasoit's Life

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What is this you call property, It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men, the woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him¨? Said a man named Massasoit, an Indian chief in this text you will learn about who Massasoit is and what he did in his life.

Massasoit was born in a small native American village known as the pokakent village near Rhode island in 1590. He had 2 brothers named akkampion and quadequina. As a child, he was originally named Ousamequin meaning yellow feather. At the age of 33 Massasoit became tremendously ill. Massasoit was as very blessed, He was chief

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