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Wampanoag · wampanoag · People of the First Light · Wampanoag NationWampanoag
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- Northeast
In the record
One court case turned on its rights: Mashpee Wampanoag trust-land litigation (Littlefield v. Dept. of the Interior line).
Today, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) carry this history, as their own pages or research records say. Land has come back: Native Land Conservancy land holdings.
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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Other names in English
- People of the First LightEnglish (translation used by Mashpee)
- Wampanoag Nation
Who is doing the work
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Working with these nations
- Native Land Conservancy (Massachusetts) Native-led Native-led land conservation Give on their site Website
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
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
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Named in 2
Present-day governments that carry this history 2
Organizations that work with this nation 1
Sources
- wampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/reference work
The Wampanoag Nation once included all of Southeastern Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island
- mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/reference work
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, also known as the People of the First Light
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