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Cohasset was inhabited by the Pokanoket until 1649, when it was conquered by the Wampanoag, [3] and then the Massachusett in 1668. [4] [5]The area entered the written record in 1614, when Captain John Smith explored the coast of New England and described an encounter of his ship with four Native Americans in a canoe at Quonahasit, two of whom were shot by the Europeans. [6]
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.
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 ...
Sholan Farms, named after Chief Nashawhonan , is located in Leominster, Massachusetts. It was one of the many Nashaway lands seized from the Indians to pay off their trading debts. The first reports of the peoples of Massachusetts' interior were scant. The subdivisions had their own sachems (leaders) and functioned independently of each other.
Map of locations by per capita income. Areas with higher levels of income are shaded darker. Massachusetts is the second wealthiest state in the United States of America, with a median household income of $89,026 (as of 2021), [1] and a per capita income of $48,617 (as of 2021). [2]
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 ...
Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves. Norfolk County is included in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Norfolk County is the 24th highest-income county in the United States with a median household income of $107,361. It is the wealthiest county in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts – from an Algonquian language of southern New England, and apparently means "near the small big mountain", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts [1] (c.f. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck).