It was on this date, May 31, back in 1833 that a petition signed by more than 100 Mashpee Wampanoag reached the desk of Massachusetts Governor Levi Lincoln. A copy
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William Apess (1798-1839) was a Pequot Indian, a Methodist preacher and a widely celebrated writer who fought alongside the Mashpee Wampanoag to regain their sovereignty and rights to their ancestral