335:. It was the second-to-last jurisdiction on the Cape to undergo the process. Mashpee Wampanoag held every seat in Town Government until 1967. With European Americans moving to Mashpee in growing numbers and taking seats in town government, ultimately the Mashpee Wampanoag lost control of town government. The majority of the Tribeâs citizens live in and around Mashpee today. Many also worked on whaling and other ships that operated from Cape and other Massachusetts ports in the 19th century. They continue to identify as Mashpee Wampanoag by their common culture. Census rolls of the Tribe grew from marriages and
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230:, and two Wampanoag interpreters convened a week-long meeting in Mashpee to hear from the Tribe regarding their petition (hearing the confessions) and report back to the General Court. The petition being granted, the Mashpees now governed themselves via the law of âpraying townsâ. Praying Town status afforded tribes protection of the English Crown and a greater chance to remain on their homelands. While this helped to maintain tenure in the land, these new laws also patterned English systems of justice and took away freedoms of the Wampanoag to live traditionally.
536:, which it then had under a purchase agreement. This is about 48 miles driving distance from Mashpee. They were challenged by the Pocasset Wampanoag, which was also seeking an agreement for a casino. The state said it would accept the tribe's bid for a casino at that location, as one of three the state intends to authorize. By 2014, the tribe was completing an FEIS for development of the property in Taunton, as well as property it owns in Mashpee. The latter is to be developed for administrative office needs.
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525:. It contains a general prohibition against gaming on lands acquired into trust by federally recognized tribes after October 17, 1988, the date of the act. The tribe's attempts to gain approvals have been met with legal and government approval challenges, as it did not continuously control a reservation before this date. It had become landless because of colonial and local Massachusetts town actions against it.
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lacked authority to take tribal land into trust for the benefit of the tribe. On March 27, 2020, the Trump administration announced it would remove over 300 acres of land from the federal trust and take away the designation of "reservation." A hearing was scheduled for U.S. District Court in
Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2020.
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In July 2016, the U.S. district court found that the BIA had exceeded its authority, entered summary judgment for the plaintiffs, and ordered the matter remanded to the BIA. In
February 2020, the First Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the district court, maintaining that the Department of Interior
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During this period, there was considerable internal tension within the tribe. Tribal elders sought access to the tribal council records detailing the council's involvement in the Ring scandal, filing a complaint in
Barnstable Municipal Court. The tribal council voted to formally "shun" these members,
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lawsuit, suing the Town of
Mashpee for the return of ancestral homelands. The US District Court ruled that, lacking federal recognition as a tribe, the Mashpee Wampanoag people had no standing to pursue the land claim. The tribe continued to pursue federal recognition for three decades, gaining it in
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maintain order in their area, but otherwise subjected them to colonial government. The
Wampanoag population of the plantation declined steadily due to social disruption and infectious disease contracted from the colonists. They also suffered from continuing encroachment on their lands by the English.
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to the position of council chair and president. Cromwell's campaign had promised reforms. He worked to distance himself from the previous chairmen, although he had served on the tribal council for the prior six years during which the
Marshall and Abramoff scandals took place. He was among those who
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Marshall was removed from office by the Tribe and was a succeeded by tribal council vice-chair Shawn
Hendricks. He held the position until Marshall pleaded guilty in 2009 to federal charges of embezzling, wire fraud, mail fraud, tax evasion, and election finance law violations. Marshall had steered
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Enrollment Committee quorum and full present, it was unanimously voted to implement a moratorium for all new tribal citizen applications effective September 21, 2023 with reasonable notice provided to the Tribal membership. A moratorium is a delay or a suspension of an
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The legislature passed laws prohibiting
European Americans from encroaching on Wampanoag land, but the state did not enforce these. The competing settlers also stole wood from the reservation. The Wampanoag held a large region, once rich in wood, fish and game, which was desired by white settlers.
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Meanwhile, the tribe continued to negotiate with the state to gain a license to develop a casino on its land in
Taunton. In 2013, the Mashpee tribe and the state formed a compromise that would see the group giving Massachusetts "17 percent of all casino revenue" generated. However, these payments
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In 1834, the state returned a certain level of self-government to the Wampanoag, although they were not completely autonomous. With the idea that emulating European-American farming would encourage assimilation, in 1842, the state broke up some of the Wampanoag communal land. It distributed 2,000
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for recognition. Like other "landless" tribes of the Atlantic Coast area, they encountered difficulties documenting their continuity. The recognition process required documentation of continued existence since first contact with European arrivals. In many areas, outsiders assumed that, as tribes
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in the 17th century. The Wampanoag also controlled a considerable amount of coastal area. They are one of the several Algonquian-speaking tribal nations in what are now considered Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Wampanoag and English (later European Americans) have interacted and shaped each
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In November 2011, the Massachusetts legislature passed a law to license up to three sites, each in a separate region of the state, for gaming resort casinos and one for a slot machine parlor. The Wampanoag were given a "headstart" to develop plans for a casino in southeastern part of the state.
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of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, against the will of the Wampanoag. By this designation, the Crown gave the colonial district of Mashpee authority to integrate into its territory the area governed by the Mashpee Wampanoag. The colony gave the natives the "right" to elect their own officials to
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English colonists began to settle in and around the traditional tribal community of present-day Mashpee, Massachusetts, which was also called Marshapoag (Big Pond), and Saukatukett (South Sea) when Rev Leverech of Sandwich began preaching there in the 1630s. He was later replaced in 1658 by
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In September 2015, the Department of Interior took into trust 321 acres in Mashpee and Taunton, MA as a reservation for the Mashpee Wampanoag, who had held the land in fee simple. As reported by Casino.org, "This is a reclamation of land that was once ours," tribal chairman
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Beginning in the 1970s, the Mashpee Wampanoag worked to regain its political power; it sought federal recognition of its tribal status by the federal government. The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council, Inc was incorporated in 1972 under the leadership of its first president,
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In 2022, in partial resolution of the architectural firm bribery case, former chair Cedric Cromwell was required to repay $ 210,000 and was sentenced to three years in prison, and David DeQuattro "was sentenced to a year of probation under home confinement."
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to pursue a plan to develop Indian gaming, as this seemed a route to generate revenues to help the tribe take care of its people. In 2008, Ring was indicted and convicted on federal corruption charges linked to his work for the Mashpee band.
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In February 2016, a group of Taunton property owners filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Mashpee Wampanoag's plans to build a gaming casino on the tribe's land in Taunton. They challenged the land-into-trust deal, citing
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The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council has established criteria for enrollment as a member. The tribe requires that a person be able to document descent from recognized members, must live in or near Mashpee, and be active in the tribe.
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as an agent of an Indian tribal government and one count of conspiring to commit bribery. Chairman Cromwell was also indicted on four counts of extortion under color of official right and one count of conspiring to commit
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voted to shun tribal members who tried to investigate. A challenge to Cromwell's election by defeated candidates, following allegations of tampering with voting and enrollment records, was filed with the Tribal Court.
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acres (8.1 km) of their 13,000-acre (53 km) property in allotments of 60-acre (240,000 m) parcels to heads of households, so that each family could have individual ownership for subsistence farming.
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preacher, helped the Mashpee Wampanoag lead a peaceful protest in 1837 against the overseers, the governor threatened a military response. Rule by the overseers resulted in the loss of additional Wampanoag lands.
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banning these elders from the tribe for seven years. The federal government had also sought records from the tribe as part of its 2007 investigation into Abramoff and his colleagues.
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and confirmed by the General Court of the colony. In May 1666, a delegation of English leaders, including Richard Bourne, John Eliot and his son, John Cotton,
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reportedly told the tribe that their reservation will be dis-established and their land taken out of trust, per an order from Secretary of the Interior
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In March 2024, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe had approximately 3,200 enrolled citizens. Their 170 acres in Mashpee, as well as an additional 150 acres in
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1064:"Federal Government Revoking Reservation Status for Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's 300 Acres"
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By 2010, the Wampanoag Tribe's plan had agreement for financing by the Malaysian
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1124:"Wampanoag Tribe Leader Indicted for Bribery in Connection With Casino"
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1558:âPeople Of The First Light, Episode 107; The Wampanoags Of Mashpee,â
1464:"Wampanoag, who helped Pilgrims survive, win rights to tribal lands"
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619:(1999), describes the effect of 1970s land claims by the Wampanoag.
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Mark Ganning and Maureen McNamara, producers (Director) (1984).
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1434:"Mashpee tribe's request to halt land order to be heard May 7"
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Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc., Massachusetts
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in 2015, establishing these parcels as reservation land.
1375:"Mashpee Receive 321 Acres: First Trust Land Decision"
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866:"Cape tribe feels heat from lobbyist scandal"
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363:. In 1974, the Council petitioned the
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27:Native American tribe in Massachusetts
1122:Young, Colin A. (November 13, 2020).
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58:Regions with significant populations
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795:"Former Wampanoag leader sentenced"
739:Handbook of North American Indians.
347:In the early 1900s, tribal members
1062:Marcelo, Philip (March 30, 2020).
912:"Cedric Cromwell elected chairman"
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561:Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal
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1553:Enrollment Ordinance
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1334:Indian Country News,
1313:, September 8, 2010.
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1458:Hedgpeth, Danawork=
1345:CampaignMoney.com,
1277:, November 18, 2011
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811:"Marshall Timeline"
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