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Wampanoag artist Ramona Peters wrote this piece for a flyer distributed at the Mashpee powwow in 1988 and 1989. Powwow flyers have been an important source of Mashpee Wampanoag writing and self-representation. This piece, signed "Nosapocket," speaks…

An account of a dugout canoe trip from the mainland to Aquinnah, launched by Plimoth Plantation's Wampanoag Indian Program.

Avant wrote this piece while she was President of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council and Director of Mashpee's Indian Education Program, and published it in the tribe's annual powwow flyer. The Mashpee powwow flyers have been an important source of…

In this letter, Little Wolf (writing from Roxbury, MA) wishes Red Wing a happy Thanksgiving and consoles her on the death of White Oak. He praises her museum and also references the Dovecrest Restaurant, on the same premises.

Cassius A. Champlin was President of the Tribal Council during the 1930s, when Red Wing was publishing The Narragansett Dawn. In this letter or speech to tribal youth he extols the values of education and caring for each other.

Lone Wolf (Lawrence W. Wilcox) was a frequent contributor to The Narragansett Dawn, which Red Wing edited and published between 1935 and 1936. This piece comes from Red Wing's files for the magazine; it seems not to have been published

Fred V. Brown (Niantic/Narragansett) was a frequent contributor to The Narragansett Dawn, which Red Wing published and edited. This piece appeared in the June 1935 issue of the magazine.

Transcription:

Fellow – Native Americans ——

In numbers there is force, for good or evil. Together we stand, divided we fall. The Native American has fell to his present state because of lack of unity, ambition & education.

So…

Is this the Rhode Island state song (the tune?)