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Today, there are two federally recognized Wampanoag tribes and one state-recognized Wampanoag tribe. [48] [49] The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has about 3,200 enrolled citizens in 2023. [50] The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) had 1,364 enrolled tribal citizens in 2019. [51] The state-recognized Herring Pond Tribe has not posted their ...
State recognition attempted for the tribe with the introduction of State of Rhode Island House Bill 2006--H 7236, but the bill was never passed. [153] Also in Massachusetts. Pokanoket/Wampanoag Federation/Wampanoag Nation/Pokanoket Tribe/And Bands, Warwick, RI. Letter of intent to petition 1/5/1998. [27] Rhode Island Indian Council, [32 ...
Waco - Named after Waco, Texas, which is the name of one of the divisions of the Tawokoni whose village stood on the site of Waco, Texas. Wahoo; Winnebago; Wyoming - Derived from a corrupted Delaware word meaning "large plains" or "extensive meadows." Wyoming Township, Holt County, Nebraska; Yutan - Named for an Otoe chief.
In September, an appointed citizens review committee for a library in Montgomery County, Texas recategorized a children's book by Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) member Linda Coombs from ...
Last month, a citizen committee in Montgomery County, Texas made the decision to re-classify the children's book, "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" by Linda Coombs from children's non-fiction ...
The Wampanoag people are indigenous Algonquian peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who lived throughout northeast North America and are currently tribally based in present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island with descendants spread throughout the world.
The Wampanoag connection to the first Thanksgiving. Tribal Chairman Brian Weeden says the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has existed for over 12,000 years in current-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Jessie Little Doe Baird (Mashpee Wampanoag, born 1963), linguist and preserver of the Massachusett language; Hobomok, Wampanoag interpreter; Don Luis (died 1571), Kiskiack or Paspahegh guide and interpreter for a party of Jesuit missionaries in Virginia; Joseph James and Joseph James, Jr., Kaw/Osage interpreters and guides