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...first part the Indians would have to prove their legal status as a tribe. It is unclear why the judge felt it necessary to determine the legal status of Wamponoags at all, for the Massachusetts state government and the federal government have both implicitly recognized the Wamponoag's tribal status...
...Wamponoag a tribe, and Richard McCann, HEW regional commissioner of the Office of Education in Boston, offers another example. He reports that the Wamponoags of Mashpee have not been rejected in their application for federal aid under part B of the Indian Education Act of 1972, which stipulates tribal status as a prerequisite for accepting applications, and that the Wamponoags have already received aid under part A of the act, which offers an entitlement program based on the number of Indians enrolled in the public schools. McCann says these grants alone show the federal and the state government accept...
BEYOND THE LEGAL QUESTION of the Wamponoags' tribal status lies a more serious moral question. Is it possible for a group of people unconsciously conditioned by their own cultural and racial assumptions to judge objectively an alien racial and cultural group? Do they have the right to sit in judgment at all? Ellsworth Oakley, tribal chief of the Mashpee Wamponoags, posed this very question: "How can a white jury decide for us? We know who we are." The sessions of the trial consistently revealed the difficulty of cross-cultural evaluation. At one point during the proceedings, James D. St. Clair...
Shubow said he believed the outcome of the trial will have a "psychological, not a precedental effect" on other Indian lawsuits in Rhode Island and Martha's Vineyard, as well as on a separate attempt by the Mashpee Wamponoags to gain federal regulation of their tribal status by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs...
James D. St. Clair, former attorney for former President Richard M. Nixon who is now representing the town of Mashpee, said in his final argument Tuesday that the Indians only are the descendants of the "remnants of other tribes" who converted to Christianity, shed their tribal affiliations and settled in the Cape Cod seashore community, in the 1660's. Lawrence D. Shubow, attorney for the Indians, summed up his case Tuesday saying, "Don't deny these people their identity. They have been fighting for this identity for 350 years. Are you going to say 'You've been a living fraud...