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  2. Native American tribes in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of organizations that self-identify as Native American ...

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    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.

  4. Stockbridge–Munsee Community - Wikipedia

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    The Stockbridge–Munsee Community, also known as the Mohican Nation Stockbridge–Munsee Band, is a federally recognized Native American tribe formed in the late eighteenth century from communities of so-called "praying Indians" (or Moravian Indians), descended from Christianized members of two distinct groups: Mohican and Wappinger from the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and ...

  5. Cohasset, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of Massachusetts placenames of Native American origin

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    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)

  7. A casino project sparks conflict over tribal sovereignty and ...

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    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 ...

  8. Indian Health Service - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an operating division (OPDIV) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). IHS is responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native people .

  9. List of place names of Native American origin in New England

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    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.