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Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). [5] The Wampanoag language, also known as Massachusett, is a Southern New England Algonquian language. [4] Prior to English contact in the 17th century, the Wampanoag numbered as many as 40,000 people living across 67 villages composing the Wampanoag Nation. [6]
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.
Location of the land holdings of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) (Wampanoag: Âhqunah Wôpanâak [2]) is a federally recognized tribe of Wampanoag people based in the town of Aquinnah on the southwest tip of Martha's Vineyard (Wampanoag: Noepe, the land amid the streams [3]) in Massachusetts (Wampanoag: Mâsach8sut [2]), United States.
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 ...
An unrecognized tribe, the Pokanoket Tribe, also known as the Pokanoket Nation claims to descend from the Pokanoket people. [7] They are not federally recognized; [8] state-recognized by Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or any other state; [9] or recognized by Wampanoag tribes. [10] The town of Warren, Rhode Island, lists a land acknowledgment on a ...
Mashpee author Danielle Greendeer takes readers away from traditional Thanksgiving stories with account of reclamation of tribal food.
Homelands for the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe range from Plymouth to the nearby Cape Cod towns of Bourne and Sandwich. Hoctor and Kerina Silva, also an attorney and Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribal ...
Massasoit Sachem (/ ˌ m æ s ə ˈ s ɔɪ (ɪ) t / MASS-ə-SOYT, - SOY-it) [1] [2] or Ousamequin (c. 1581 – 1661) [3] was the sachem or leader of the Wampanoag confederacy. Massasoit means Great Sachem. Although Massasoit was only his title, English colonists mistook it as his name and it stuck. [4]