Byline: David Weber
MASHPEE - The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe received federal government recognition as a sovereign American Indian nation yesterday after 32 years of legal wrangling.
Their ancestors were at Plymouth long before the Pilgrims arrived and they shared the historic first Thanksgiving before their numbers were decimated by war and disease.
Now, four centuries later, the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs has made the Cape Cod group the ...