Yes, I read once about a grim joke made by a contemporary Wampanoag: “Thank goodness for the English, or we’d be speaking Narragansett now.” The area around Providence, RI was heavily contested ground among native groups, and at one point the Wampanoag allied with the English against the Narragansett to try to push them back.

I find the land acknowledgment trend so depressingly simple minded and ignorant. It reduces native people to one-dimensional, weak victims who never had any strategy, agency, or complexity in their dealings with each other and European groups. Completely fake and racist.