Aquinnah Wampanoag author and Mashpee resident Linda J. Coombs spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Saturday, March 16, about the history of colonization in New England from King Philip’s
A crowd gathered behind the Aquinnah Firehouse for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Aquinnah Town Center Apartments on Thursday afternoon. The four residential units will house four families, and are slated to be inhabited starting July 1st of next year. The apartments will provide affordable housing with preference to Aquinnah residents, or to those with […]
Here on Martha’s Vineyard, we are comfortable talking about and celebrating certain aspects of our history and present reality, but we rarely talk about our historical and present violence. The Aquinnah Wampanoag people have been living on Martha’s Vineyard for 12,000 years. The Aquinnah Wampanoag were a matrilineal nation where land usage was passed through […]
When it was all but over Friday afternoon, Annawon Weeden stood next to a dwindling fire and could only think of good fortune, and the work done by a community of family and friends old and new, …