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2020-04-29Stand with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Amid Threats of Disestablishment
Following the March 27, 2020 decision by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, under the Trump Administration, to remove over 300 acres of Mashpee Wampanoag reservation lands from federal trust, Indigenous and non-Indigenous advocates helped launch a #StandWithMashpee campaign as the tribe also struggles to deal with battling the spread of the coronovirus. #IndigenousStories -
2020-03-27Threat to Tribal Sovereignty: Bureau of Indian Affairs Moves to Disestablish Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation Amid Pandemic
In an emotional message, Chairman Cromwell addresses his dismay that amid the record confirmed cases of the coronavirus that he was informed that his tribe's reservation was being disestablished and the land taken out of trust. "Not since the termination era of the mid-twentieth century has a Secretary taken action to disestablish a reservation." #IndigenousStories