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The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (formerly Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) is one of two federally recognized tribes of Wampanoag people in Massachusetts. Recognized in 2007, they are headquartered in Mashpee on Cape Cod. The other Wampanoag tribe is the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) on Martha's Vineyard.
The Mashpee Wampanoag tribal offices are located in Mashpee on Cape Cod. After decades of legal disputes, the Mashpee Wampanoag obtained provisional recognition as an Indian tribe from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in April 2006, and official Federal recognition in February 2007. [67]
With almost four centuries of Native American leadership and ministry, the Old Meeting House is a place of historic and spiritual significance to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe. [6] In 1833 it was the site of the Mashpee Revolt, when tribal members and their minister, William Apess ( Pequot ), protested state intrusions on their self-governance ...
In 2015, the federal government declared 150 acres in Mashpee and 170 acres of land in Taunton as the Tribe’s initial reservation, on which the Tribe can exercise its full sovereignty rights ...
After four legal cases dating from 2015, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe can claim land. An appeal is still possible, tribe attorney says. New court decision puts Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in control.
Tribal Chairman Brian Weeden says the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has existed for over 12,000 years in current-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Tisquantum, also known as Squanto, was a member of ...
Cedric Cromwell, also known as Qaqeemasq (or Running Bear) in Wôpanâak, is the Former Tribal Council Chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts. [1] Elected in 2009 as chairman, Cedric Cromwell was the head of the official elected government for the 2,600-member federally recognized tribe.
The 24-year-old member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe was among a cadre of volunteers rooting out invasive species and tending to recently planted native vegetation on a wide swath of forest ...