On December 8 the select board for the town of Eastham agreed to grant free access to all town beaches to any Wampanoag tribal member presenting a tribal ID card. The new rule took effect January 1, 2021.

This effort, in commemoration of the "first encounter" in Eastham 400 years ago came from a suggestion by tribal youth Nathan Mills when he appeared on the Eastham 400 series of online interviews this summer to talk about what it's like to be a Native youth on Cape Cod in 2020.