Maushop was so tall and heavy that he left footprints in the rock that he walked on, and you can still see them today. He caught great fish for his dinner, and when he emptied the sand from his moccasins into the sea, he created the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
After many years, humans came to settle in the woods where Maushop lived. Because they lived by the sea where the sun rose in the morning, they were called the Wampanoag, or ‘People of
