Steven Peters
477 Rise Together Program Plan for 2025: ...

The 477 Rise Together Program stands as a unification of tribal services, offering vital support, employment opportunities, and training programs to eligible American Indian and Alaska Native residents within our service area.

Under the 477 Rise Together Program, federal funding from approved departments is received and amalgamated, channeling the myriad federal program funds into a singular, comprehensive 477 Fund and plan.

Steven Peters
MWTGC Seeks Contractors to Fill Positions

The Mashpee Wampanoag Gaming Commission (MWTGC), an independent government regulator for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, is seeking contractors to fill two positions: Director and Surveillance and Compliance Technician. Additional details for each position may be found by clicking the button below.

Steven Peters
State Officially Recognizes Herring Pond ...

On Tuesday, November 19, the tribe was honored to host Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey on our reservation land where she visited the Mashpee Wampanoag Museum, Old Indian Meetinghouse, Community and Government Center, and the Weetumuw School.

Dasia Peters
US Supreme Court Upholds Tribal Lands

Today we celebrate a legal and moral victory that brings to our Tribe justice that has been very long overdue.  The United States Supreme Court announced that it would not hear the appeal requested by a small group of Taunton residents who have challenged our right to our Reservation for nearly a decade.  With this final legal victory, we secure the future for the generations who come after us, and we honor our ancestors who continued the fight to have ancestral land returned to us.  With this victory, we will be able to fully exercise our sovereignty to provide for our people and to preserve our culture and traditions. 

Steven Peters
Annual Holiday Gift Card and Toy Pick-Up ...

The Annual Holiday Gift Card and Parent Toy Pick-up opens on Saturday, December 16, with Stop & Shop gift card pick-up from 9:00 AM to Noon at the Tribe’s Community and Government Center. Starting at 1:00 PM and continuing through 6:00 PM, tribal citizens may pick up both toys and a Stop & Shop gift card. The annual event will continue on Sunday, December 17, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, when parents may continue to pick up both toys and a Stop & Shop gift card.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Threatened with Land Disestablishment, Tribal Leaders Step in to Address Ongoing Land Issues and Threats to Sovereignty

On Friday, March 27, 2020, the Secretary of the Interior notified the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe that he has ordered the disestablishment of the Tribe’s reservation, an act that would take Mashpee’s tribal homelands out of trust status. This action is being taken despite Interior’s prior commitment that no such action would be taken until litigation defending the status of the Tribe’s reservation is resolved. This surprise action is a devastating blow to not only the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe but all of Indian Country, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and violates the federal government’s solemn trust responsibility to safeguard tribal nations and their lands.

Message from the Chairman: We Will Take Action to Prevent the Loss of Our Land

At 4:00 pm today -- on the very day that the United States has reached a record 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and our Tribe is desperately struggling with responding to this devastating pandemic -- the Bureau of Indian Affairs informed me that the Secretary of the Interior has ordered that our reservation be disestablished and that our land be taken out of trust. Not since the termination era of the mid-twentieth century has a Secretary taken action to disestablish a reservation.

Governor of Massachusetts Issues Emergency Order: Essential Tribal Operations Continue to Provide Service

Today, Governor Charlie Baker issued an emergency order requiring all businesses and organizations that do not provide Coronavirus essential services to close their physical workplaces to workers, customers and the public. This step has been taken to slow the spread of the novel Coronavirus. The closure will start tomorrow Tuesday, March 24 and continue until Tuesday, April 7 at noon.

Tribe Sees Court Decision as a Grave Injustice to Indigenous People

This evening we learned that the First Circuit Court of Appeals declined to overturn Judge Young's decision in the lower court. The decision has no impact on the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s pending litigation in Washington, D.C., and its land will not be taken out of trust as a result of today's decision. The Tribe will continue this fight and continue its plea that the United States Congress take action – the Tribe will not give up the fight to protect its lands.

Appeal set in First Circuit Court, February 5 in Boston - Tribal Transportation Available

The Tribe’s appeal of the Massachusetts federal court decision that the Government could not take the Tribe’s land into trust will be heard by the First Circuit on February 5, 2020 at 9:30 AM in the En Banc Courtroom on the 7th floor of the federal courthouse. The case is "David Littlefield, et al. v. Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe,"  Docket #16-2484.

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