In The News Archive
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'Wampanoag Pilgrim Disney'?: Wampanoag Tribe severs ties with Plimoth Patuxet Museums
August 19, 2022 (Cape Cod Times)
by Rachael DevaneyPLYMOUTH — A long, winding, dirt path through Plimoth Patuxet Museums leads visitors to the Historic Patuxet Homesite, where they can find a traditional, indigenous hickory bark-covered wetu, a cooking arbor and replicas of customary mishoon canoes…
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Select Board Has Mixed Opinions of Tribal Land Transfers
April 31, 2023 (Mashpee Enterprise)
by Mackenzie RyanMashpee Select Board had mixed opinions on Town Meeting articles requesting transfer of land to expand the Old Indian Meeting House Cemetery and provide land for a traditional Wampanoag village and living museum.
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'Rest easy.' Mashpee tribe praises Supreme Court action preserving 321 acres in trust
April 4, 2024 (Cape Cod Times)
by Rachael DevaneySince 2021, a group of Taunton residents has been seeking to reverse a decision allowing the federal government to take 321 acres into trust for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.
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What Are Aboriginal Rights? Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Members Explain
October 5, 2023 (Falmouth Enterprise)
by Gilda GeistA panel of Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal members spoke at Mashpee Community Park on Sunday, October 1, about the tribe’s aboriginal rights to hunting, fishing and gathering natural resources on Cape Cod.
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Learning from One Another
September 26, 2023 (The Point)
by Mindy ToddWe hear about the genesis of L.I.N.K. and some educational events. Members of the Wampanoag tribe talk about indigenous people’s hunting and fishing rights barriers tribal members face when trying to exercise those rights.
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The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement - Feature Documentary
March 31, 2020 (Youtube)
by Issac Goeckeritz | FilmmakerAs pressures on ecosystems mount and as conventional laws seem increasingly inadequate to address environmental degradation, communities, cities, regions and countries around the world are turning to a new legal strategy known as The Rights of Nature.
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The Radical Optimism of Youth: Working Towards Protecting Herring—and Renewal
December15 2023 (Cultural Survival Magazine)
by Hartman DeetzIn Mashpee, Native Environmental Ambassadors (NEA) are a group of Native youth leading the way for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in advocating for solutions.
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Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Declaration of the Rights of Herring
The newly formed youth group Mashpee Wampanoag Native Environmental Ambassadors drafted and presented a Declaration of the Rights of Herring, which recognizes that Herring have “the right to migrate freely, procreate abundantly, and safely make their journey back to sea.”
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Wampanoag Tribe hopeful Rights of Nature can protect herring in Mashpee
March 20, 2023 (Cape Cod Times)
by Rachael DevaneyA muskrat splashed and played in Santuit Pond as Earl "Chiefy" Mills Jr. shared a story about Ahoo, a Wampanoag woman from long ago, who could still the area into silence, just by singing a song…
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The Largest Dam Removal project in U.S. a Major Win
September 1, 2024 (CNN)
by Rachel RamirezThe largest U.S. dam removal project is completed, after crews demolished the four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River. A significant ecological win for tribal nations on the Oregon-California border.
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Largest Dam Removal Project—What Next?
September 3, 2024 (BBC)
by Lucy SherriffRemoving the dams is one thing, restoring the land is quite another. Most important about restoration is ensuring high diversity. Tribal elders of the Yurok Reservation harvested native seeds, by hand, collecting 98 species.
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On Cape Cod, the Wampanoag Assert Their Legal Right to Harvest the Waters
August 21, 2024 (Civil Eats)
by Emma Glassman-HughesNot everyone respects that right. But the Wampanoag are determined to continue, saying their work is an essential expression of 12,000 years of heritage, sovereignty, and lifeways.
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The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador
September 11, 2024 (Yes Magazine)
by Peter YeungThis article discusses how Ecuador's constitution protects nature, and how this has helped to keep the Los Cedros forest safe for years.
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A Modern Declaration Woven into an Ancient Art- The UNDRIP Wampum Belt.
June 1, 2022 (Cultural Survival Magazine)
Sheldon Ferris and Rebecca KirkpatrickHartman Deetz, Mashpee Wampanoag, and Michelle Cook, Dine, discuss the importance of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ wampum belt and the distinctive history of wampum and wampum belts.
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Tribes have long studied how to preserve our most vulnerable ecosystems. Researchers in Mass. are listening.
September 19, 2024 (Boston Globe)
Ivy ScottA handful of prominent institutions are blending their research strategies with Indigenous knowledge to better conserve and restore the state’s forests and wetlands.