(The Conversation) — In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important parts of the country’s story. (The Conversation) — Nine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before a pilgrim stepped foot in Massachusetts, the Wampanoag people were living on their land. For more than 12,000 years, the ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. Jenaya Perry, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, competes ...

There is a story beneath the surface of the places we call home. On Martha’s Vineyard, that story begins long before summer traditions, generational homes, and the memories many of us hold close. It ...

Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation down to size. The 24-year-old member ...

Harvard University's Peabody Museum and Warren Anatomical Museum recently completed the legal process for repatriating the remains of 313 Native people from eastern Massachusetts to Wampanoag ...

During New York City's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a Mashpee Wampanoag tribal member riding the Wampanoag Tribe's parade float held up a Palestinian flag. A video that shows the tribal member ...

MASHPEE, Mass. — The U.S. Department of the Interior has reversed a Trump administration order that rescinded the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's right to 321 acres of reservation land that helped establish ...

The Taunton Casino has expanded, again. On Monday, July 28, 2025, the Taunton Casino launched several events to celebrate a "game changing expansion," according to a written statement from the Mashpee ...

It's Thanksgiving Day, 2021, a day that, according to most historians, marks 400 years since the first feast that inspired the U.S. tradition of cooking, eating lots of food and expressing gratitude.

John H. Randolph lll (”Randy”) passed away in the early morning of March 18, 2026. A Wampanoag tribal member, he grew up on ...