Recognition Gives Tribe a Reason to Give Thanks
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › February 16, 2007
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MASHPEE, Mass. (AP) -- The tribe that shared in the first Thanksgiving celebration received federal recognition Thursday as a sovereign American Indian nation, 32 years after it began its quest.
The ancestors of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe were at the area where Plymouth was founded long before the Pilgrims arrived, but their population was nearly wiped out by war and disease.See the full content of this document
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Recognition Gives Tribe a Reason to Give Thanks
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