Chiefs Honoring During Powwow

An honoring ceremony to introduce our tribal chiefs to our community and visiting nations will be held in the traditional circle on the powwow field during the last day of the Mashpee Wampanoag Powwow at 1:00 PM on Sunday, July 6. The tribe will recognize our chief, Earl “Chiefie” Mills and Sagamore, Vernon “Buddy” Pocknett, and define the roles they play in our community. For tribal members who wish to do so, this will be an opportunity to honor the chiefs with traditional gifts.

Healing Fire June 20th

Come join the Substance Use Disorder/TOR team on Friday, June 20th from 5:00 PM - 7:30PM for the first Healing Fire of 2025. There will be light refreshments, a bouncy house, drumming, and speakers who cover alcohol awareness & mental health topics. All tribal families are welcome to attend. For more information please contact :

Honoring Our Graduates

Congratulations to the class of 2025! If you or someone you know is graduating and would like to be featured in the Mittark, please send submissions to sassamin.weeden@mwtribe-nsn.gov.

Mason Amari Hendricks graduated with his Bachelor of Science Psychology from Umass Dartmouth on May 16, 2025. Mason is the single father of Giavanna Francis Hendricks. He is the son of Jody Santagate and Great grandson of Francis “Sistah” Hendricks. He is the grandson of the late “Big Larry” Hendricks and the older brother to Junie and Xavier. Mason is the face of perseverance. Despite sustaining serious injuries from an accident last year, he was determined to finish class on time and show his daughter that you never give up. He took his finals from the ICU and made the Deans list. Mason plans to continue on to work on his masters, then Doctrate. His area of passion is to work with ICWA and help tribal youth.

Pottery with Nosapocket

The Native Land Conservancy is hosting another pottery class with Tribal Elder and Artisan Ramona Peters. This 3-day hands on workshop will take place on July 15th,16th, and 17th from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM at the Native Land Conservancy in Mashpee. For more information on availability, please contact paula@nativelandconservancy.org.

Tribal Cultural Resource Monitor Field School Training Opportunity

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Historic Preservation Department (THPD) is pleased to announce an upcoming Tribal Cultural Resource Monitor (TCRM) Field School Training opportunity this June. This training is designed to build internal capacity and provide hands-on experience in archaeological field methods, cultural site identification, monitoring protocols, lab processing of finds, post processing collected items, GIS data collection and site surveying.

Requests for Proposal - Mashpee Wampanoag Attaquin House (Seeking Project Architect and Owner's Representative)

The Tribe is seeking a Project Architect/Architect of Record (Project Architect) to provide Construction level drawings for the restoration of the historic Attaquin House. We are also seeking an Owner’s Representative for the restoration of the House. This historic structure was built in 1849, thus this project requires a unique understanding of historic preservation and the rehabilitation treatment of this period building.

Call for Contributions: “Garden of Memories” Community Archiving Project Continues This Spring

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Historic Preservation Department (THPD) is seeking community support of our Tribal archive, which documents our shared community heritage.

Over the past year, we had an opportunity for the community to contribute their personal histories to the Tribal Archive. In collaboration with UMass Boston, MWT Archives and Tribal community members are continuing this work to create a digital collection of individual and family stories to help preserve communal shared histories of our Tribal members for the future generations.

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