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In 1600 the Wampanoag probably were as many as 12,000 with 40 villages divided roughly between 8,000 on the mainland and another 4,000 on the off-shore islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The three epidemics which swept across New England and the Canadian Maritimes between 1614 and 1620 were especially devastating to the Wampanoag and neighboring Massachuset with mortality in many mainland villages (i.e. Patuxet) reaching 100%. When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, fewer than 2,000 mainland Wampanoag had survived. The island Wampanoag were protected somewhat by their relative isolation and still had 3,000. At least 10 mainland villages had been abandoned after the epidemics, because there was no one left. After English settlement of Massachusetts, epidemics continued to reduce the mainland Wampanoag until there were only 1,000 by 1675. Only 400 survived King Philip's War.

Still concentrated in Barnstable, Plymouth, and Bristol counties of southeastern Massachusetts, the Wampanoag have endured and grown slowly to their current membership of 3,000. The island communities of Wampanoag on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket maintained a population near 700 until a fever in 1763 killed two-thirds of the Nantucket. It never recovered, and the last Nantucket died in 1855. The community Martha's Vineyard has sustained itself by adding native peoples from the mainland and intermarriage, but by 1807 only 40 were full-bloods. Massachusetts divided the tribal lands in 1842 and ended tribal status in 1870, but the Wampanoag reorganized as the Wampanoag Nation in 1928. There are currently five organized bands: Assonet, Gay Head, Herring Pond, Mashpee, and Namasket. All have petitioned for federal and state recognition, but only Gay Head (600 members but without a reservation) has been successful (1987). The Mashpee (2,200 members) were turned down by the federal courts in 1978.

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For Kevin Stalheim, artistic director of Present music, the image of that 1621 feast shared by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag is the basis for an annual, ...
A selectman from each Island town, as well as officials representing Dukes County, the Martha's Vineyard Commission (MVC), and the Wampanoag tribe of Gay ...
The Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the ...
That fall, the small band of surviving settlers gathered with a large group of Wampanoag to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Everyone in America knows this ...

The Mashpee Wampanoag and Wampanoag tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) made the original request for a review of the Sound's eligibility, citing oral traditions ...
Benjamin Galvin, 18, of 12 Wampanoag Trail, West Yarmouth, is charged with assault with intent to murder, assault to rob, assault and battery with a ...
Native artist Marlene Lopez said Wampanoag means "people of the first light," because when the sun rose in the east, it would first reach the Wampanoags, ...
McGILL, Patrick, 18, 24 Wampanoag
This letter is to address opposition to the claim that the Wampanoag
As a lifelong resident of Falmouth on Cape Cod, I fully support the Wampanoag
About 388 years ago, 90 Wampanoag
Last month, Mashpee Wampanoag
Cape Wind seemed near final approval after it passed a major environmental review in January, but that's been delayed by the Wampanoag tribes in Mashpee and ...
Cape Wind seemed near final approval after it passed a major environmental review in January, but that's been delayed by the Wampanoag tribes in Mashpee and ...
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag
A Wampanoag woman prepares a meal as part of an exhibit at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass. A few weeks ago, Trudie Lamb-Richmond ...
Nine months later, some Mashpee Wampanoag
(NECN) - There was an Election Day demand for the resignation of several Wampanoag
A Wampanoag
The Associated Press reported Monday that the Wampanoag
The Wampanoag
Tobey looks forward to seeing Clark expand the Wampanoag
Many people in this part of the country do have an ancestor with Penobscot, Mi'kmaq, Wampanoag
If the Wampanoag's
We got a preview of how heated the debate can become when the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe won a hard-fought vote in Middleboro back in 2007 for a proposal for a ...
In 2007, when legislators last debated casino gambling in Massachusetts, the Mashpee Wampanoag
We got a preview of how heated the debate can become when the Mashpee Wampanoag
The Mashpee Wampanoag are still pushing a casino for Middleboro. The Suffolk Downs race track in Boston is angling for a casino. Rep. ...
OF ALL THE gimmicks that opponents of Cape Wind have resorted to, working with the Wampanoag tribes to protect all of Nantucket Sound for cultural reasons ...
Wampanoag tribal officer George Green stood at Popponesset Beach in Mashpee where wind turbines will be placed. (Debee Tlumacki for The Boston Globe) By ...
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Winona LaDuke, a Native American environmental activist, gave the first keynote address following an opening ceremony by the Wampanoag nation Singers and ...
He has provided "research papers” or testimony against the Mashpee Wampanoag and the Shinnecock Indian Nation. He has self-published two books about ...
That decision, said coalition spokesman and health director for the Wampanoag tribe, Ron maclaren, followed a meeting between the superintendant of schools ...
The Wampanoag Indians taught the early settlers how to grow pumpkins between rows of corn and beans. They also taught them to bake them in the dying embers ...
Ron MacLaren, director of the Wampanoag Health Services and one of the coordinators for the Island-wide exercise, told The Times yesterday that the state's ...
In addition to two federal agencies trying to reach agreement over the wind farm, two Wampanoag tribes are asserting a tribal cultural properties claim that ...
MIDDLEBOROUGH - Leaders of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe have scaled back plans to build a billion-dollar resort casino in Middleborough, ...
... RI Before that, Nunes was project manager for the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha's Vineyard, in its effort to get into the gambling business. ...


 


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