Word: wampanoag
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...federal district court jury in Boston failed to reach a verdict last night after being charged in a suit to determine whether the Wampanoag Indians of Mashpee, Cape Cod, are legally a tribe...
...Wampanoag Indians in Mashpee, on Cape Cod, are now in court seeking to regain some of the land they lost to the white man centuries ago. Another group of Wampanoags on Cape Cod obtained some tribal land by concession from their town's government, and the Passamaquodies along with the Penobscot tribe are suing Maine for nearly half the state...
...Mashpee Wampanoag Indians, charged with assault and battery of police officers, disorderly conduct, and violation of an anti-noise law, are free after being found not guilty by Judge Dennis Collari, special justice to the Third District Court of Plymouth, on Saturday...
Earl Mills, Jr., one of the defendants, said yesterday he thought the police action was caused by "the greater consciousness, Indian awareness and the Mashpee Wampanoag land suit. The town was trying to put the flame out, but as it was, they couldn...
...Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is suing the town of Mashpee for return of approximately 16,000 acres of public and private land they claim the town's founders illegally expropriated...