‘Respect and reciprocity’: Gift returns 500 WMass acres to Native American stewardship (The Republican Editorials)
The amount of land is small, but the gesture is not – especially in light of President Donald J. Trump’s musing about erasing the Indigenous name of our country’s tallest mountain, Denali, and ...
'This is a special place for us': How nearly 40 acres in Tiverton was reclaimed by Pocasset tribe
A swamp in Tiverton that's believed to be the site of a key battle during King Philip's War is returned to members of the Pocasset tribe.
Duwamish Tribe should get another chance at federal recognition, judge rules
The Duwamish Tribe, a group of Indigenous people that has sought federal recognition as a sovereign Indian nation for nearly ...
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Report reveals wealth gap for Native Americans in Mass.
Gail Hill, a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, urged state officials "to offer some type of reconciliation, some type of restorative justice ...
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Native American wealth in Massachusetts lags far behind non-Natives, new report shows.
For example, the 1869 Massachusetts Indian Enfranchisement and Allotment Act severed Native ... For Woods, who is a member of the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, nothing from the report was a surprise ...
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'This is a special place for us': How nearly 40 acres in Tiverton was reclaimed by Pocasset tribe
Afterward, Metacom and Weetamoe escaped with hundreds of their warriors to central Massachusetts ... chief sachem of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, the only federally recognized tribe in Rhode ...