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Friday’s opening ceremony featured tribal chairs from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, and Nipmuc Nation, the descendants of the first students of the Indian College...

Author: By Joy C. Lin, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Indian Tribe Back in Yard | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...last radar signal came at 9:39, just south of Aquinnah. When they had not turned up by 2:00 a.m., a family friend reported them missing, and the search began about an hour later. The FAA began checking airports along the route. At 7:30, once the sun was up, the Coast Guard and Air National Guard combed the waters from Long Island Sound to Cape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Was America's Prince... | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Currently, the only employment opportunities for the Wampanoags in the adjoining town of Gay Head--which the Wampanoags call Aquinnah, meaning both "land below the hill" and "beautiful colors by the sea"--are as short-order cooks and clerks in the strip of ramshackle businesses that line the town's beaches...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wampanoags Hope To Cash In on Casino | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

...Fair? Give me a break. How much money have Native Americans gotten or the Aquinnah Wampanoags for giving up all of Massachusetts?" Madison says. "What is fair is that we have been given the right to operate under existing federal...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wampanoags Hope To Cash In on Casino | 10/14/1994 | See Source »

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