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Early Life
The Pocasset band spent there time between Mattapoiset and Nemasket. Weetamoo is an example of gender fluidity. She performed duties of both male and female Native Americans. Weetamoo learned the ways of agriculture, building permanent and temporary shelters, prepare hides, hunting small animals, fishing, and cooking. Weetamoo was also trained to fight and learned diplomacy and leadership by observing her father and other elders like Massasoit. She was also close friends with another female sachem Awashonks. Weetamoo was also close friends with brothers Wamsutta and Metacomet as young girl. Weetamoo went on a vision quest that "kills the child soul" which is a right of passage for males.1

Political Career
Weetamoo's leadership arose from her role as a cultivator of diplomacy.Brooks Weetamoo is depicted "as potent a Prince as any round about her, and had as much corn, land, and men, at her command" as King Philip. As a leader of her people Weetamoo traveled to different nations as an ambassador for the Wampanoag people. She was entrusted to represent Pocasset intertwined interests and sovereignty. By 1663, Weetamoo, had learned the colonial "deed games".

‌ As tensions grew prior to King Philip's War, Weetamoo, was a highly sought after ally from both Metacom and the English.TrutorMany believe Weetamoo sided with Metacom was out of revenge for the death of Wamsutta. Another reason she may have sided with Metacom is a group of English soldiers attacked her canoes in June 1675. The group of soldiers thought the canoes were Metacom's.Trutor This solidified Weetamoo's decision to ally with Metacom. In addition, Weetamoo forged alliances to fortify her authority and territorial integrity. Her strategy intertwining with other leaders and their families to protect those who depended on them.[http://Lisa%20Tanya%20Brooks.%202018.%20Our%20Beloved%20Kin%20:%20A%20New%20History%20of%20King%20Philip’s%20War.%20New%20Haven:%20Yale%20University%20Press. Brooks]

Her role in King Philip's War was significantly decreased by the English particularly byMary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. In reality, by 1675 Weetamoo was the leader of all allied tribes in the Wampanoag Confederation. In February of 1676, Weetamoo led a raid on the English in the Battle of Blood Rock that resulted in the capture of Mary Rowlandson. At the Battle of Blood Rock Weetamoo commanded an army of more than 300 warriors that.

Death
Weetamoo drowned in the Taunton River while leading a charge on the English in 1676. Her body washed ashore in Swansea which was a prominent English colony. The English were so afraid of Weetamoo’s power, they cut off her head and mounted it on a pike. They left her head on display in front of a settlement in order to prove she really had died. When the remaining Wampanoag people saw what the English had done Increase Mather stated:

"They made a most horrible and diabolical lamentation, crying out that it was their queen's head. If to lament the sad end of their queen was diabolical on the part of the Indians, what was this cruel mockery of their grief by a Christian minister, and what had the heathen to gain by listening to his teachings, or adhering to his practice?"Peirce

Legacy
Weetamoo was the squaw-sachem or warrior-leader of the Pocassets by birthright. Her power and her authority in the larger Wampanoag and Narragansett communities came from the status of that birthright, her experience as a ruler, and her familial alliance. To the Wampanoag people Weetamoo was a sunksqua, a bead worker, a dancer, a war chief, a storyteller, and so much more. Weetamoo was one of the best examples of a smart and intelligent sachems. She is also remembered for her remarkable beauty. Weetamoo is known as "Squaw Sachem."mather