Tribal Members are being urged to attend the Mashpee Town Meeting this evening (Monday, May 1) to support several petition articles (27, 36 & 37) that will protect our water – rivers, bays and estuaries that are on the brink of dying due to over development in the town. The meeting is held at the Mashpee High School at 6:30 PM.

Tribal operations will be closed for business on Thursday, April 6th, and declared a “Day of Mourning” out of respect for Sôtyum Vernon “Silent Drum” Lopez. Tribal offices will remain closed on Friday, April 7th.

Mashpee Wampanoag Chief Vernon “Silent Drum” Lopez, a proud veteran of World War II, died on Monday at the age of 100.

Nelson Andrews, Domingo Tiexeira, and Rita Gonsalves were reelected to Tribal Council. Nitana Hicks Greendeer, Roxanne Mills Brown, and Winona Pocknett were also elected at the Sunday, February 12 election. 433 ballots were cast in the election.

Over 40 years ago, our Tribe began the process of securing a small fraction of our ancestral homeland in Southeastern Massachusetts. Today, I am honored to inform the community that federal district court Judge Angela Kelley confirmed what we have all known to be accurate, that the land now held in trust by the federal government is the ancestral homeland of the Mashpee Wampanoag.