Wasanegin the Great Sachem of the Pokanoket Tribe & Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag Nation

It is NOT true that this person's name was not historically recorded, there is a decent amount of info about him, especially when one takes the time to actually speak with the Pokanoket Tribe of Rhode Island. He was quite an amazing and much loved man. His name in fact was:
Wasanegin (1554-1617) the Great Sachem of the Pokanoket Tribe and the Chief Massasoit of the entire Wampanoag Nation (Confederacy). Though he died just three years before his son Ousamequin would met the arriving Mayflower Pilgrims, Wasanegin the Great Sachem of the Pokanoket had become the 1st elected Chief Massasoit of the (then) newly formed Wampanoag confederacy, and it was he who met another famous boat - that which carried John Smith and Rebekkah "Pocahontas" on their missionary journey to Rhode Island. Through them, Wasanegin is said to have accepted the (Protestant) Christian faith and named his daughter Mary-Mary Margaret (for Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Christ), and from her came many of the tribe members throughout Long Island and New England.

The knowledge of the biblical faith that Wasanegin passed to his children made it possible for his son and heir Ousaequin to sympathize with the Mayflower Pilgrims and later led the Wampanoag Confederacy to protect the Plimouth Plantation when the British waged an all-out terror campaign against the Natives of New England in the King Philip War, which resulted in more bloodshed than any other event in the entire recorded history of North American (north of the Mexican border), including the Revolutionary War, the 1812 War, the Spanish American War, the Civil War, and 9/11.

Quadiquina, Akkompion, and Massasoit were brothers, but history does not record their parents and ancestors.

Not so sure about these notes ….

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Wasanegin was the Massasoit (chief) of the Pokenoket Tribe and the Sachem (Great Chief) over the entire Wampanoag, a multi-tribe federation. His position was somewhat akin to a person being both a governor of a U.S. state AND president of the entire United States - at the same time; the territory of the Wampanoag consisted of most of present day Rhode Island, the lower eastern portion of present-day Massachusetts with part of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and the entire eastern half of present-day Long Island (New York).

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Wasanegin and his people received Christian missionaries, which included the Powhatan tribal chieftan's daughter, Matoaka (Mrs. Rebecca Rolfe), famously known as Pocahontas, which likely influenced Wasanegin when he gave his daughter the European Christian name of Mary-Mary Margaret, who would be mother to many chiefs to this day.

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He died just a few years before the Mayflower's arrival, and it would be his son, Ousamequin, that would be the famous Wampanoag chief to aid the Pilgrims at Plymouth; unfortunately, the English mistook his title of 'Massasoit' to be his name, and he has been historically known by his title ever since, though there were several others who bore that title.