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Cape Cod Times Letters to the Editor: Barnstable Citizens Police Academy and Marcus Hendricks Native American walks on Cape Cod.

Exploring our local history

One thing that could help improve the situation is to set up a Wampanoag scholarship account, Gail Hill, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe said.

The natural history of our region and our place in it: insights from Wampanoag tribe members.

From the blog of Robert Cherry at The Times of Israel

Mashpee Wampanoags and public officials are working hard to educate the public about tribal fishing and hunting rights to prevent harassment.

BUZZARDS BAY — A member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe said he is planning to press charges against a motel co-owner following a dispute last week over access to a herring run. Steven DeGrace, of Onset, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, claims he was harassed and assaulted while trying to catch herring, as is allowed by aboriginal rights. However, motel co-owner Ronnie Armany says the confrontation was a misunderstanding.  DeGrace said he  was with friend Markiese Tomkinson at the...

A loon surfaced intermittently a few feet off the southern shore of Santuit Pond as several ospreys—recently returned from an intercontinental migration—circled overhead or perched in still-leafless trees. To a voice memo app on his phone, Jim Carroll noted the date (March 31, 2021), the time (a little past 5:30 PM), the weather (80 percent clouds) and air temperature (11 degrees Celsius, or 51 degrees Fahrenheit). Mr. Carroll dipped a thermometer over the edge of the Santuit fish lad...

Carrying his fishing rod and gear, Dan Hannigan recently walked to Spectacle Pond in Wareham, where he chiseled a hole in the ice with a hatchet to drop a lure into the water. With the relatively warm weather this season, the ice is thin, less than the 4 inches needed to walk on it. Standing by the side of the pond, he set a trap with a spring mechanism. When a fish bites, a flag will rise to alert him. And so he waited. Hannigan, a member of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, is among several ...

Carrying his fishing rod and gear, Dan Hannigan recently walked to Spectacle Pond in Wareham, where he chiseled a hole in the ice with a hatchet to drop a lure into the water. With the relatively warm weather this season, the ice is thin, less than the 4 inches needed to walk on it. Standing by the side of the pond, he set a trap with a spring mechanism. When a fish bites, a flag will rise to alert him. And so he waited. Hannigan, a member of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, is among several ...