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...Theroux adds another delight, Jilly Farina, a plucky adolescent with an artless narrative voice that, like Huckleberry Finn's, grabs and holds the reader's attention from the first page: "I had walked from Gaga's in Marstons Mills to Mashpee, where Dada was living with Vera, his Wampanoag woman, and when I got there he was black-out drunk and she was gone. I looked at Dada lying on the floor and made sure he was not dead." The resemblance to Huck Finn does not appear to be coincidental. Not only is her father a soak, but Jilly also...
...first Europeans arrived, the Indian population of North America north of Mexico was about 1 million. According to Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, some Indian sages had forecast the coming of white-skinned aliens. On his deathbed, a chief of New England's Wampanoag tribe said that strange white people would come to crowd out the Indians. As a sign, a great white whale would rise out of the witch pond. The night he died, the whale rose, just as he had predicted. Similar prophecies about predatory whites can be found in the lore...
...between sailing with Jackie and dining with the Kissingers, Clinton has dozens of other invitations to sort through. The Vineyard chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. has asked him to speak, the Oak Bluffs selectmen want to present him with a medal, and the Wampanoag tribe has invited him to a powwow. The Edgartown city fathers may have had the best idea. Knowing the President's weakness for town meetings, they have invited him to one scheduled...
Nanepashemet, a member of the Wampanoag tribe and a Native American historian, said the Wampanoags believe that people are "formed from the land and go back to the land...
...part of the Native American Conference this Saturday, Harvard Ed School graduate and former president of the Wampanoag tribal council Russell Peters says that his tribe lost its land at Mashpee on Cape Cod when the Federal government refused to acknowledge it as a tribe...