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Mashpee (/ ˈ m æ ʃ p i / Wampanoag: Mâseepee [1]) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod. The population was 15,060 as of 2020. [ 2 ] The town is the site of the headquarters and most members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe , one of two federally recognized Wampanoag groups.
It was the second-to-last jurisdiction on the Cape to undergo the process. Mashpee Wampanoag held every seat in Town Government until 1967. With European Americans moving to Mashpee in growing numbers and taking seats in town government, ultimately the Mashpee Wampanoag lost control of town government.
The district historically included the town of Mashpee, ... Massachusetts legislative salaries in 2023 started at $73,655 per year, plus $15,000 to $20,000 for expenses, ...
Barnstable County is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.At the 2020 census, the population was 228,996. [1] The county seat is Barnstable. [2] The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands (some adjacent islands are in Dukes County and Nantucket County).
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corp., 592 F.2d 575 (1st Cir. 1979), was the first litigation of the Nonintercourse Act to go to a jury. [1] After a 40-day trial, the jury decided that the Mashpee Tribe was not a "tribe" at several of the relevant dates for the litigation, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld that determination (the panel included two judges from ...
In 1974 the Council petitioned the Bureau of Indian Affairs for recognition. In 1976 the tribe sued the Town of Mashpee for the return of ancestral homelands. The case was lost but the tribe continued to pursue federal recognition for three decades. In 2000 the Mashpee Wampanoag council was headed by chairman Glenn Marshall.
In Mashpee, three out of the seven municipal wells the town operates had been affected by the plume, and all three were taken offline, Mashpee Water District Manager Andy Marks said. One has been ...