USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Massasoit chose him to make first contact with the pilgrims in March of 1621 CE, and he has been recognized since as instrumental in bringing the Native Americans of the Wampanoag Confederacy and English colonists of Plymouth together in a compact which would remain unbroken for the next 50 years.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the Plymouth settlement in present-day Massachusetts, the leaders of the Plymouth colonists, acting on behalf of King James I, make a defensive alliance with Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pilgrims and Wampanoags cooperated a lot in the early years of contact, but conflict was eventually going to happen because the two sides did not communicate very well. Pilgrims and Wampanoags had many differences but that did not mean the two groups had to go to war.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Pilgrims recognized the necessity of befriending the “locals” to help them become a viable colony. The Wampanoag obliged by showing them what to fish for, how to plant and cultivate crops in the rocky Massachusetts soil, and how to hunt in the woods.

Detailed explanation-5: -When the Pilgrims landed in New England, after failing to make their way to the milder mouth of the Hudson, they had little food and no knowledge of the new land. The Wampanoag suggested a mutually beneficial relationship, in which the Pilgrims would exchange European weaponry for Wampanoag for food.