In accordance with 2024-ORD-001, Code of Ethics, the Tribal Council has scheduled the General Election of three (3) ethics commissioners to be held at the General Body Meeting scheduled on Sunday, April 13, 2025. At the General Body Meeting on Sunday, January 12, 2025, the Tribal Council will provide tribal members with advance notice of the April 13 General Election date and will accept nominees to the Ethics Commission.   The deadline for nominees to submit a letter of interest and reasons to be elected to the Commission will be Sunday, March 9, 2025 with a list of nominees and letters of interest to be distributed to the general tribal body via E-Blast by Friday, March 14, 2025.

Established in 1969, the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. (USET) is a non-profit, inter-Tribal organization serving thirty-three (33) federally recognized Tribal Nations from the Northeastern Woodlands to the Everglades and across the Gulf of Mexico, including the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. USET is dedicated to enhancing the development of Tribal Nations, improving the capabilities of Tribal governments, and improving the quality of life for Indian people through a variety of technical and supportive programmatic services.

Our Tribal Elders celebrated the holiday season with this year’s Elders Christmas Party held at
the Community and Government Center. The festive gathering included a meal catered by Chef Sherry Pocknett, music, raffles, and good company for all to enjoy!

Mashpee-Wakeby Pond has received its diagnostic pond study results, and a management plan is in the works to improve the water quality. “We are finally here to discuss the highly anticipated Mashpee-Wakeby Diagnostic Study and the Mashpee Water Quality Report for the estuaries from 2019 to 2023,” said Ashley Fisher, the town’s water quality coordinator, to the Mashpee Select Board on Monday evening, December 16.

Published on Thursday, November 21, 2024, the Brookings Report on Indian Boarding Schools, co-authored by Tribal Member Robert Maxim, raises serious concerns about the future of federal efforts to address the devastating legacy of Indian boarding schools.

The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project continues to hold community language classes for enrolled tribal citizens and family members who live in their household. Details on their Beginner Workbook Class that begins on on January 28th are listed below.

Weetumuw School is accepting applications for both classrooms: Mukayuhsak Weekuw (ages 3-kindergarten) and Wushkeenune8ak Weekuw (grades 1-3). Please email Head of School Nitana Hicks Greendeer if interested nitana.greendeer@mwtribe-nsn.gov.

The ZYG 808 and Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor have been named top nominees for the 2024 Native American Music Awards.

Tribal citizen Billy Atkins threw for 181 yards and a touchdown in his first start since 2022, leading James Madison University to the program's first bowl win after topping Western Kentucky 27-17 on Wednesday night in the Boca Raton Bowl.

With the histories of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony being centered in the Massachusetts State Standards and the resources that have long been produced this course intends to tell these stories from the Mashpee Wampanoag reality and equipping participants to do the same. If you are an Educator and interested in joining us, please do reach out to register !

The Native American Teacher Retention Initiative Grant (NATRI) currently supports the cohort of several Native Educators eager and dedicated to help our youth thrive academically, socially and culturally. We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce them to the community. 

Sacred Parenting Workshops have been ongoing since 2020 and will continue throughout this upcoming year. One of the main underlying goals of these workshops is to revive traditional parenting practices for the well-being of future generations by embarking on a journey of personal healing.