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BOSTON--The Reagan administration has asked Congress to delay paying the federal share of a $4.5 million settlement that would end a century-old land dispute with Wampanoag Indians living on the Massachusetts resort island of Martha's Vineyard...
...Supreme Court yesterday refused to consider a petition to determine whether the Wampanoag Indians, who are claiming 11,000 acres of land in the town of Mashpee, Mass., are legally a tribe...
...white jury ruled that although the state recognizes the Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, the Wampanoags were not a tribe on four key dates: in August 1976 when they filed the suit; in 1790, the date of a federal law that forms the basis for the land claim; and in 1869-70 when the Indian district of Mashpee was incorporated as a town...
Sunday in November. But folk tradition -New England tradition, at least-considers the first Thanksgiving to have been the conciliation in 1621 between the hungry Pilgrims at Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians, who had helped them to grow food. At Memorial Hall, near Plymouth Rock, this week, some 2,000 people will gather at the customary turkey feast that has come to be shared across the land as a kind of national communion. Says Carolyn Kneip of Plymouth: "If the Pilgrims returned today to see what they had started, they would be dumbfounded-and rilled with pride...
Route 28 continues to Mashpee, the home of the Mashpee Indians. Recently, the Indians sued the town to get back much of the land; the outcome is still uncertain. The Wampanoag Indian Museum in Mashpee is a good place to pick up Indian history or gossip about the suit...