Here FirstOn March 16, 1621, Samoset, a sagamore of the Wawenock, cemented his place in history. He was the first Indigenous person to make contact with the colonists at Plymouth Plantation, startling them when he emerged from the forest and welcomed them in English. The extraordinary thing about Samosets story is that he was not from Plymouth. He was not even Wampanoag, or Patuxet, who lived in the area. Samosets home was more than 200 miles away on the coast