Rints the Martha's Veyard island town of Gay Head, Mass., have cid by a three-vote marg to change s name to the origal Indian name of...
Contents:
- GAY HEAD JOURNAL; A TOWN WH HISTORY, BUT WHOSE?
- GAY HEAD VOTED OUT AS MASS. TOWN'S NAME
- GAY HEAD OR AQUNAH? CHANGE TO A VOTE
GAY HEAD JOURNAL; A TOWN WH HISTORY, BUT WHOSE?
* how did gay head get its name *
The Wampanoag were the first people of anctors of Wampanoag people have lived for at least 10, 000 years at Aqunah (Gay Head) and throughout the island of Noepe (Martha's Veyard), pursug a tradnal enomy based on fishg and agriculture.
In 1870, over the unanimo objectns of the Wampanoag Indian rints, the Town of Gay Head was rporated. From the Wampanoag pot of view, the prcipal effect of the rporatn of Gay Head was the alienatn of Wampanoag Indian District Lands (rervatn), which was vlatn of the Feral Non-Interurse Act of 1790.
GAY HEAD VOTED OUT AS MASS. TOWN'S NAME
Bee the Tribe ntrolled the Gay Head town ernment for more than a century sce 1870, the effects of this alienatn were largely obscured, and the tegry of the Tribal Common Lands seemed to be aquately protected.
GAY HEAD OR AQUNAH? CHANGE TO A VOTE
In 1972, however, rponse to the growg potentialy for encroachment on Tribal Common Lands, the Wampanoag Tribal Council of Gay Head, Inc. The mon lands clu the Gay Head Cliffs, Herrg Creek, and Lobsterville.