The following is an award-winning essay written by Womsikuk James for the Young Native Writer’s Essay Contest.
For more than a century on Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod, the words of the Wampanoag were not their own.
“It was prophesied that language would go away from here for a time,” Jessie Little Doe Baird intones at the opening of filmmaker Anne Makepeace’s documentary We Still Live Here. “When the appointed time came, if the people here decided that they wanted to welcome language home then there would be a way made for that to happen.”
When the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) broke ground on a community center building in the spring of 2004, tribal leaders envisioned it as
When the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe received a telephone call from U.S.
As Gay Head entered the 1900s, it was one of the newest towns in the commonwealth.
We are members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).