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Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe · mashpee wampanoag · People of the First LightMashpee Wampanoag Tribe
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- Official name
- Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
- Recorded status
- Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)
- Region
- Massachusetts
In the record
2 court cases turned on their rights: Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corp. and Mashpee Wampanoag trust-land litigation (Littlefield v. Dept. of the Interior line).
This nation carries the history of Wampanoag in the treaty record.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Official names
Other names in English
Recognition, as each source states it
Recognition is a legal and political status that governments assign; it is not a measure of who a people are.
- Recognized by a state, MAExecutive Order No. 126, as restated in Executive Order No. 637source
Who is doing the work
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Named in 2
Carries the treaty history of 1
Governed by 1
Sources
- wampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/reference work
Mashpee and Aquinnah have maintained physical and cultural presence on their ancestral homelands.
- mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/reference work
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, also known as the People of the First Light, has inhabited present day Massachusetts
- mass.gov/executive-orders/no-637-recognizing-the-herring-pond-wampanoag-tribereference work
Like the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, and the Hassanamisco Nipmuc Tribe, the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe is recognized
- Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Research notes
From org-mashpee-wampanoag. Trust status contested per seed.
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