US Government Revokes Mashpee Tribe’s Reservation Status
![Peace treaty between Governor Carver and Massasoit, the Wampanoag sachem, Plymouth, March 22, 1621, engraving from Columbus and Columbia, published by Hunt & Eaton, New York, 1892 US Government Revokes Mashpee Tribe’s Reservation Status](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/image2020-04-01-1.jpg)
WASHINGTON – Four hundred years ago, the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts allied with English settlers in Plymouth and helped them through their first year in America. Friday, the U.S. Interior Department (DOI) informed the Mashpee it will disestablish the tribe and remove its 129-hectare Cape Cod reservation from federal trust. Tribal chairman Cedric […]