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Chanting ancient Native American prayers and burning sweet grass, the chief medicine man of the Wamponoag tribe blessed the new Hall of the North American Indian which will open Thursday at the Preabody Museum...
...RECENT DECISION to dismiss the Wamponoag Indians' land suit is as logically faulty and politically self-serving as the conduct of the Mashpee trial itself. Judge Walter J. Skinner's decision accepts the jury ruling, handed down in January, that the Indians of Mashpee were not a tribe on certain key legal dates, but did constitute a tribe on other important dates...
WHEN THE LONG and controversial Mashpee trial finally ended last week, the Wamponoag Indians of Mashpee, Massachusetts had ample cause to doubt the white man's system of justice. And his logic: the federal jury of eight white men and four white women ruled that the Wamponoags were not a tribe on four legally crucial dates, but were a tribe on four legally crucial dates, but were a tribe on two other dates. The confusing and contradictory decision proved a fitting ending to a trial ineptly-handled at best, and morally questionable at worst. The jury's verdict...
...itself. The judge instructed the lawyers and the jury that the trial was to have two parts, and in the 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...
Lawrence D. Shubow '44, the chief counsel to the Indians, cites Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' 1976 executive order declaring the 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...