Another woman sachem, Awahonks, from Sakonnet, about 15 miles south, had an equal number of men under her arms. Today, the Sakonnet are no more and only a hand full of the Wampanoag remain. The United States Government recognizes only a few hundred people living on the island of Martha's Vineyard as being Indian. This number combined with a few small Indian groups, namely the Mashpee Indians on Cape Cod and the Nipmuc Indians of Worcester, lead to the conclusion that the rest of the indigenous population of Massachusetts were exterminated or fled. There were at least a few hundred tribes.
Today there are three.
American Indian people were almost exterminated. We know our ancestors. We do not need anthropologist or genealogist to tell us how many of our great grandmothers, aunts, uncles or wives were butchered and scalped. I doubt that the Jewish survivors of the holocaust or the Nation of Israel would tolerate an exhibition of their people's remains in a German museum, but we Indian people are expected to accept this sort of treatment. The genocide that happened in the Americas is no way justifiable.