The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. Jenaya Perry, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, competes ...

Taunton's First Light Casino now features a bar and, unlike 2025, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe will be selling alcohol at ...

The Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, headquartered in Plymouth, has received state recognition as a historic and continually present Indigenous tribe. Gov. Maura Healey granted the designation Tuesday by ...

The 103rd Mashpee Wampanoag Powwow will take place July 5-7 celebrating the tribe’s annual homecoming, traditions and culture. “I think everyone should attend the powwow because we're all neighbors ...

In many ways, Ciara Hendricks is a typical 16-year-old. She's a junior at Mashpee Middle-High School on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She plays basketball, lacrosse and field hockey. She works two ...

TAUNTON — Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council Chairman Brian Weeden said the public can expect more information about the Taunton casino "in early 2025." "Over the coming months we are thrilled to ...

A Texas court ordered that a children’s history book about the Wampanoag tribe, written by Aquinnah author Linda Coombs, be returned to the nonfiction second of an East Texas library system a week ...

The Thanksgiving story deeply rooted in America’s school curriculum frames the Pilgrims as the main characters and reduces the Wampanoag Indians to supporting roles. It also erases a monumentally sad ...

The Wampanoag were the Native American tribe that joined the Pilgrims for the “First Thanksgiving,” yet much of the common lore about that story is inaccurate. For example, the Wampanoag weren’t ...