Both Mashpee’s boys and girls basketball teams currently have members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe on their rosters. The Tribe has had representation on all four state-champion football teams, and many other Falcons teams have also had tribal members.
Mashpee's Little Warrior Finds A Bone Marrow Match
Reclaiming A Language
The Wampanoag language, Wôpanâak, is now being taught in a public school in its place of origin.
Mashpee Middle/High School launched the first class in the indigenous language in September, and Mashpee Public Schools and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe officials say the historical significance should not be underestimated.
Tribe weighs in on future of Mashpee Commons
Mashpee Wampanoag Work Toward Decision on Tribe's Land Status
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe announced today that it hopes to fully remobilize construction crews in Taunton, Massachusetts this summer for its $1 billion First Light Resort & Casino project and have doors open by summer 2018.
The Tribe’s announcement comes on the heels of information from the U.S. Interior Department that it will issue a new decision on the historic Tribe’s land status on or before June 19, 2017.