Wampanoag History — Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aqunah)

Contents:

• HOW THE WAMPANOAG INDIANS TOOK BACK GAY HEAD
• MASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE AND THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF GAY HEAD
• ENOMIC, CULTURE, INTY: THE CASE OF THE AQUNAH CULTURAL CENTER. | WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF GAY HEAD AQUNAH
• WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF GAY HEAD (AQUNAH)
• GAY HEAD
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

HOW THE WAMPANOAG INDIANS TOOK BACK GAY HEAD

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.

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.

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.

MASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE AND THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF GAY HEAD

The Master Plan followed several years of vtigative efforts and illtrat the prent visn of the future tribal muny Gay Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aqunah) and the Town of Gay Head entered to agreement June of 1995 to jotly provi for the health, safety and welfare of persons on Tribal Lands by providg for the e of police, fire, and medil personnel and rourc the event of disaster, disorr, fire or other emergenci arisg on Tribal Lands. The Tribe's Aqunah Rangers are EMT certified and provi servic for both Tribal Lands and the up-island 1998, the name of the town was officially changed om Gay Head back to s former Wampanoag name of Aqunah by the state legislature, reprentg regnn of Wampanoag history the regn.

The Gay Head Wampanoag Indians lived on Martha’s Veyard for thoands of years, and for the last 400 they never gave up tryg to keep their land and rema a sovereign on they figured out how to bt the English lonists at their own legal gam.

ENOMIC, CULTURE, INTY: THE CASE OF THE AQUNAH CULTURAL CENTER. | WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF GAY HEAD AQUNAH

The Indians’ home of Aqunah beme known to the English as Gay Head, after the cliffs that rose 100 feet above the ocean. Wrote historian John Warner Barber 1841, “to those who are on board a vsel sailg near to shore, pecially after a ra, and when the sun sh on , is a betiful and brilliant object, hence the name Gay Head.

WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF GAY HEAD (AQUNAH)

In 1687, one of the Indians’ Christian lears sold Gay Head and the Elizabeth Islands to Thomas Donegan, ernor of New York. Only three native muni remaed on Martha’s Veyard: Aqunah (or Gay Head), Chilmark and Christiantown. The Gay Hears ripped down his e-long fence.

Then 1972, the tribe formed the Wampanoag Tribal Council of Gay Head, Inc.

On April 10, 1987, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head beme a ferally acknowledged tribe. That clud 160 acr of private land and 325 acr of mon land, cludg Gay Head Cliffs, Herrg Creek and Lobsterville.

GAY HEAD

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aqunah) received Ferally Acknowledgement as an Indian Tribe 1987, creatg a ernment-to-ernment relatnship wh the U.

Notice the cranberry bogs on tribal lands to your right, lookg much as they did hundreds of years 2: Wt BasBear left and head toward Wt Bas, where you n book a fishg charter or jt ponr the view of 3: Aqunah Town CenterGo back out Lobsterville Road to State Road and make a right turn, headg down to the center of Aqunah, where you n see the Town Hall, Gay Head School and the Gay Head Communy Baptist Church. Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aqunah 20 Black Brook RoadAqunah, MA 02535-1546Phone: 508-645-9265Webse. 1700s: Many placed on rervatns lled "plantatns" (Gay Head on Martha's Veyard and Mashpee on Cape Cod).

Constutn of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, adopted 1990 and amend 1994 and 1995.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head official webse. 1860 Indian Cens of Gay Head (Aqunah), D Co., Mass. [From the transcript Indians of Massachetts: GAY HEAD.

Gay Head. Qutns about Gay Head / Aqunah / Wampanoag genealogy?

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

The 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. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head is a ferally regnized dian tribe. Official Tribal Name: Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head of Massachetts Addrs: 20 Black Brook Road, Aqunah, MA 02535-1546Phone: (508) 645 9265 Fax: (508) 645-3790 Email: Official Webse: Regnn Stat: Ferally Regnized Tradnal Name / Tradnal Meang: Aqunah, meang “end of the island.

” Common Name: Gay Head Wampanoag Meang of Common Name: Gay Head was the English name of their prcipal muny, until the name was officially changed back to to Aqunah 1998. The pensula was once known to European seafarers as Gay Head bee of the multi-lored clay cliffs on s shor. Alternate nam: Formerly known as the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head of Massachetts Aqunah Wampanoag Alternate spellgs: Wômpanâak, Wompanaak Name other languag: Regn: Northeastern State(s) Today: Massachetts First Contact: Some 400 years ago Europeans reached Noepe sufficient numbers to leave a rerd, and by the 1700’s there were English settlements over most of the island.