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Historic Wampanoag territory, c. 1620 Massachusetts has two federally recognized tribes.They have met the seven criteria of an American Indian tribe: being an American Indian entity since at least 1900, a predominant part of the group forms a distinct community and has done so throughout history into the present; holding political influence over its members, having governing documents ...
Indian Ranch Rancheria, formerly federally recognized, terminated on September 22, 1964 [53] Juaneño Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation (II). (Copycat band) Letter of Intent to Petition 3/8/1996. [26] [27] Decline to Acknowledge 12/03/2007 (72 FR 67951). Kawaiisu Tribe of the Tejon Indian Reservation [57] Kern Valley Indian Community.
William Wood's 1634 map showing locations of Pawtucket Sagamores James and John [2]. Pawtucket, meaning "at the falls," [3] was a location in the Merrimack Valley of northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire, at the Pawtucket Falls in what is now Lowell, Massachusetts. [1]
Acoaxet: (Narragansett) "at the fishing promontory" or "place of small pines"; Agawam: (Nipmuck or Pennacook) "low land" (with water) or "place to unload canoes" (possible portage spot)
Cohasset became a town separate from Hingham in 1770, 100 years later. [11] Previously, what is today the town of Cohasset was known as Hingham's Second Parish. [12] Cohasset was originally part of Suffolk County, and when the southern part of the county was set off as Norfolk County in 1793, it included the towns of Cohasset, Hingham and Hull.
The Nashaway (or Nashua or Weshacum) were a tribe of Algonquian Indians inhabiting the upstream portions of the Nashua River valley in what is now the northern half of Worcester County, Massachusetts, mainly in the vicinity of Sterling, Lancaster and other towns near Mount Wachusett, as well as southern New Hampshire. [1]
The Scotts Valley Band wants the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to place the land into a federal trust, which would allow the tribe and investors who own the property to build a $700-million casino ...
Indian Place Names of New England, Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation; O'Brien, Frank Waabu (2010). Understanding Indian Place Names in Southern New England. Colorado: Bauu Press. Trumbull, James H. (1881). Indian Names of Places, etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With Interpretations of Some of Them.