Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a "grassroots fundraiser" on Martha's Vineyard that cost up to $10,000, spotlighting growing divide between elite and working-class residents.
During the celebration of the United States’ independence, the leader of the Island’s Wampanoag Nation joined the festivities in the American capital. Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais was invited to the Fourth of July celebration at the White House South Lawn in Washington, D.C. Andrews-Maltais said she was honored to have […]
From the Aquinnah Cliffs, designated a National Natural Landmark in 1965, the horizon stretches east and west offering stunning views of both sunrise and sunset. To Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), those views are sacred, one of several reasons the tribe is continuing to seek a moratorium on offshore wind development.
Falmouth has become the 58th community in Massachusetts and the ninth on Cape Cod to support changing the state flag and seal to remove what advocates say are symbols of colonial violence.
No new design has yet been created, but the votes demonstrate support for a state commission charged with recommending changes to the state seal and flag.
In Falmouth, the Town Meeting article passed by just four votes, according to the Falmouth Enterprise.
But momentum is building, said David Detmold, a Montague resident and coordinator of the campaign website. Nearly two dozen additional communities are voting soon.
“Indigenous leaders have been calling this a symbol of past violence and have been objecting to it for 50 years,” he said.
The image on both the seal and flag shows an arm in colonial dress holding a sword above the head of an Indigenous person.
Members of the special commission include several native leaders, among them Brian Weeden, chairman of the Mashpee Wa