$25 gift cards will be given out at the MWT Food Pantry. The cards will given out on a first come first served basis (while they last) on Tuesday, December 22 from 12pm - 7pm and on Wednesday, December 23 from 10am - 4pm. One card will be given per tribal address and a tribal ID must be present.

Boys & Girls Club of Cape Cod to host a toy giveaway December 15-18 from 9:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. at 31 Frank E. Hicks Drive, Mashpee, MA 02649. Please make sure to wear a mask and bring bags for your gifts.

The Mashpee Wampanoag Food Pantry and Community and Government Center are under a temporary closure, potentially for one week due to precautionary measures including a deep cleaning. The continued rising positive Covid cases within the community and county have far surpassed the highest peaks that were experienced during the surge this past summer. All MWT Departments and services are still available, please call the departments direct extension.

FEMA just released a nation-wide press releasing urging Tribal Nations to follow the emergency response plan that was developed and implemented by the Tribe's Emergency Management Department. With a second wave of the fast spreading virus taking hold across the country, FEMA is looking for a plan of attack that can be replicated and sees Mashpee as the answer.

It is with the deepest sorrows that we learned last evening that the body of our young missing tribal woman Jalajhia Finklea was located in Florida.

Details of her return home will follow in the days to come but right now our primary concern is for the comfort, needs, and privacy of her family.

Our very deepest condolences to the family of Jalajhia Finklea. We hold them in our prayers in this most sorrowful time. We must be here for them and one another.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

There are two words in your language for the English word, ‘tribe’. These two words are our instructions; chupân8ôk, ‘Tribe’ it literally means the being set apart from others, being free. The other word is, Tahs88ôk, ‘tribe’ but literally to be counted among the collective. To be one collection of People.

The Mashpee Wampanoag are in fact, and have always been, a People created by Manut Creator free and separate from the world; a singular collective free to govern ourselves as we see fit and proper.

We are not a collection of mirror images of one another, however, and any one of us can lose our way. If we do, it is up to the collective Tahs88ôk, to ensure that the course is corrected and the way to free and fit government is opened.