English By Cecily Hilleary Share on Facebook WASHINGTON - When the Pilgrims set sail for America, southeastern New England was populated by a number of tribes, among them, the Wampanoags, Narragansetts and the Pequot, all of whom had established territories, as well as political and trade relations with one another.
But it would be the Wampanoags with whom the Pilgrims first established relations; the Pilgrims chose to settle the Wampanoag village of Patuxet, which they found abandoned. They would later learn that all of the villagers had died in recent epidemic.
Painting of the 1620 landing of the Pilgrims by Michele Felice Cornè - circa 1805
New US Secretary of Interior signifies hope for Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has a powerful new ally in its fight to keep its land-in-trust status.
The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico as Secretary of the Interior. She is the first Native American to hold a Cabinet post.
Haaland was confirmed by a 51-40 vote, the narrowest margin yet for a Biden Cabinet nomination. Four Republicans voted yes: Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
The Department of the Interior is home to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Haaland, 59, D-N.M., is an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna Native American tribe and serves on the House Natural Resources Committee. She was one of the first two Native American women elected to the United States Congress, the other being Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas.
recently gained oversight of the taxi industry says he ll hold a hearing on the taxi tickets in january. documents obtained by news4 show that 66% of all contested tickets written in the past two years were dismissed by the city s traffic adjudication bureau, a far higher percentage than for regular drives. of the tickets written by d.c. police, 69% were dismissed in that period. and 65% of tickets written by taxi commission inspectors also were dismissed. obviously we re concerned about it. just learned about it a couple of weeks ago when we started getting involved in the different issues. that was one of the things that jumped out. reporter: the probe into the ticket dismissals comes as federal authorities continue their investigation into attempted bribery within the d.c. taxi commission. that probe includes two years of fbi undercover work by commission chairman leon swain and the arrest of a high-ranking d.c. council staff member on bribery charges. the district gov
good afternoon afternoon. we re going to begin with new details about the local american men arrested in pakistan. the u.s. embassy in pakistan says the u.s. officials have visited those five american whose are in custody there. they have allegedly told investigators they wanted to connect with militant groups linked to al qaeda. however, the state department says it s sll unclear whether any local or u.s. laws were broken during their stay. steve handelsman is working the latest development from capitol hill. steve? good evening. it does look more likely now that what these guys allegedly did is in violation of american law, and here s why. the original story, it s worthwhile to kind of summarize what we knew until the new information came so you can see the contrast, is that these five guys were kind of wanna-be jihadists. it s scary enough that they were radicalized, motivated enough to go over to pakistan, but then getting there, the pakistani police called them j