Comparing Two Native Tribes

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head is a tribe in Massachusetts which holds an annual cranberry celebration. Currently, their population in the village of Aquinnah is 400 (Wampanoag, 2018). The Passamaquoddy Tribe is a 3576 populace Indian community residing in Maine, North America and Canada. They are a sub-tribe of the Indian Tribe called the Wabanaki yet have considered themselves politically independent.

The Passamaquoddy mode of hunting involves fishing of seafood, crustaceans, and fish in the Passamaquoddy Bay. Existing literature has had it that this tribe was displaced from their native lands by European settlers (Indigenous Law Portal, 2018). Their small population has been attributed to the smallpox pandemic that reduced their numbers from 20,000 to about 4000 (Pequot War, 2018). Their villages comprised conical houses (palisaded) with a war, civil and representative chief for each house. Their clothing is mainly from skin including beaver skin caps and birch-bark rain garments.