Weetamoo was born in the 1600s. She was the daughter of Corbitant, the leader of the Algonquin speaking Pocasset Tribe. They were related to the Massasoit people. Massasoit was the grand sachem or head leader of several groups. Weetamoo and her sister married two sons of Massasoit, her sister aMetacomet or Prince Phillip and herself Wamsutta, the older son. Wamsutta becme the chief Sachem when Massasoit passed away. Weetamoo became the leader of the Pocasset Tribe. Wamsutta tried to sellf Pocasset land to the British which upset his wife. He passed away from an illness while still young. Weetamoo remarried, but her next husband wanted to appease the British. Metacomet at first tried to live with the newcomers, but eventually decided he could not. Thus followed Prince Phillip's War. Weetamoo had an instrumental part in this, providing canoes for the people of Metacomet to escape when they had been trapped. She remarried Quinnapin, and they were united in their quest to achieve independence for their people. For an entire year they battled back and forth, and did not have time to plant or harvest. They experienced increasing hunger. Eventually both she and her husband would be killed. She drowned trying to escape, and her body when discovered was beheaded and her head displayed for many years.
Weetamoo was a woman who was willing to fight and die for her people.
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