PROVINCETOWN — There is still no monument to the indigenous Wampanoag people in the town where the Mayflower first dropped anchor. But that doesn’t mean there won’t ever be one. […]
Wampanoag
Native Soil
Tim Turner, Indigenous museum educator at Plimoth Patuxet, will give a talk about Wampanoag history and culture on Cape Cod during the 18th century, hosted by the Truro Public Library. […]
LOCAL ICONS
The Town Seals of the Outer Cape
A look at our municipal iconography
This article is the first in a series on town seals. Massachusetts is finally close to changing its state flag and state seal, with its problematic image of a sword […]
Wampanoag on Air (Tues.
Tune in to WCAI on Tuesday, December 1st, at 9 a.m., to hear Mindy Todd, host of The Point, in conversation with Ian Saxine, author of The Story of the […]
OP-ED
Wamsutta Frank James Made Good Trouble
The music teacher who awakened us to real history
One story surfacing this Thanksgiving tells of a search party from the Mayflower, anchored in Provincetown Harbor, raiding a gravesite near Corn Hill in Truro. About 10 bushels of corn […]
This Week in Eastham
Meetings Ahead
Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on a meeting to read its agenda. That document will provide information about how to view and take part remotely. Thursday, Nov. 19 Affordable Housing […]
MAYFLOWER HISTORY, PART 1
For Indigenous People, a Different Kind of Mayflower Story
‘You can’t create a colony without creating people who are colonized’
PROVINCETOWN — On Nov. 11, 1620, 130-odd sea-weary Brits stepped off the Mayflower and onto Provincetown’s sandy shores — into a new world, barely inhabited and ripe with possibility. Then […]
PEOPLE OF THE FIRST LIGHT
Eastham Looks to Set the Record Straight at 400th
Campfire series invites Indigenous historians to shift the storytelling
EASTHAM — Since 1620, the English side of the story of the Pilgrims’ landing at First Encounter Beach, and then Plymouth, has been the version most people learn in these […]
Feds Appeal Ruling Protecting Native Land
The Trump Administration on July 31 appealed the ruling of a federal district court in its case against the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. The Dept. of Interior’s March attempt to disestablish […]
HISTORY UNMUDDLED
Before 1620: Who Was Here?
Wellfleet Historical Society will reopen with new Wampanoag exhibit
WELLFLEET — On the official seal of the town of Wellfleet, a party of pilgrims rows ashore in a dinghy as a crowd of indigenous people wait on the beach. […]
Inside the Three Sisters Garden
The Truro Historical Society has planted its Three Sisters Garden on the lawn of the Cobb Archive at 13 Truro Center Road in tribute to the Wampanoag peoples. The three […]
HISTORY
PMPM Exhibit Revises Story of First Encounters
The new ‘Our Story’ at the Provincetown Museum offers Wampanoag perspective
PROVINCETOWN — This year marks the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ landing in Provincetown and the first encounters between the newly arrived Europeans and the indigenous people who lived here. […]
FIRST PEOPLES
Federal Judge Rules for the Wampanoags
Tribe still must work with Interior Dept. to keep land in trust
A federal judge ruled in favor of the Wampanoag Tribe of Mashpee on June 5 in a suit the tribe filed against the Dept. of the Interior, which had attempted […]
FIRST PEOPLES FOLLOW-UP
Interior Dept. Presses Threat to Wampanoag Lands
Casino competition emerging as factor in government’s case
A U.S. district court judge has chastised attorneys for the Dept. of the Interior for filing an “incomprehensible” memorandum in a case that threatens the tribal sovereignty of the Mashpee […]
EASTHAM 400
Commemoration Evolution
Shallop replica still setting its course for Provincetown and Rock Harbor
EASTHAM — As a gallery of works by the Eastham Painters Guild rolls by on the screen, your eyes are held by those of Aspinet, the Nauset sachem who befriended […]
