The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is accepting contractor bids for home maintenance and repair work at a residence on Deborah Bottles Way. The anticipated work includes windows, window trim, clapboards, and roofing.
A site walk-through is available for contractors who would like to review the work before submitting a bid. To schedule a walk-through, contact Ellen at 508-477-0208, extension 175.
Help the Tribe update its Long Range Transportation Program by sharing your ideas and input for the future of transportation and public works services in our community.
Click here to drop a pin on the interactive map and leave comments or suggestions about the types of improvements, development, or changes you would like to see.
Feedback may also be emailed to: Latoya Green, Interim Public Works Director / Transportation Coordinator, Latoya.Green@mwtribe-nsn.gov
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Natural Resources Department is seeking bids from qualified caterers to provide Traditional Wampanoag lunches for the “Native Youth in Science: Preserving Our Homeland” Summer Science Camp. Lunches will serve approximately 35–40 people per day and must be delivered to multiple locations in Mashpee and Falmouth (a detailed schedule will be provided upon contract).
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, through the Mâseepee Cultural Council, extends heartfelt thanks to the Mass Cultural Council for its continued investment in Indigenous arts, culture, and community-based storytelling. We also express deep gratitude to our state legislators and the Massachusetts Legislature for supporting the arts through annual appropriations that make these opportunities possible for Tribal communities across the Commonwealth.
IF FEDERAL LAW prevents the Mashpee Wampanoag from securing an Indian reservation in Massachusetts, then there’s something wrong with federal law.
Members of the tribe greeted the Pilgrims. They’ve lived continuously in Southeastern Massachusetts ever since. The federal government recognizes them as a tribe, and they have almost 3,000 members.
I wanted to bring awareness of a recent correspondence Tribal Council received from the Town of Mashpee Board of Selectmen regarding legislative bills sponsored in both the U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate essentially emphasizing what is already in place; "Reaffirming our Reservation." As it appears, the Town is concerned that specific language related to the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) was not built into the language of the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation Act legislation.
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Housing Department is accepting bids for a IHS Sanitation project in Teaticket, MA. Please stop by the Housing Department to pick up a bid package. A pre-bid conference will be held on April 18, 2018 at 10:00 am at the project site. More details are included in the bid package.
Congress may step in to end an ongoing legal challenge to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s efforts to secure reservation land and build a casino.
A bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass. and co-sponsored by a cadre of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, would reaffirm a 2015 decision by the U.S Department of Interior to take 171 acres in Mashpee and 150 acres in Taunton into trust, and establish statutory safeguards against further litigation on the matter in federal court.
Wunee keesuq Tribal family,
I want to provide an update about what is considered a historic show of support by representatives of the United State Congress, not only across Indian Country but across the United States of America on behalf of the Mashpee's.
A bi-partisan bill has been introduced by U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-MA in the U.S. House of Representatives that would protect our reservation lands in Mashpee and in Taunton.
