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Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts

Tribes Recognized by the State of Massachusetts
Nipmuc Nation

Historical Tribes in Massachusetts
The following list of tribes and bands of indigenous people who have lived in Massachusetts has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico...  and Swanton's Indian Tribes of North America.


 * Mahican
 * Mashpee 1660 a reservation was established for Christianize Indians from a number of tribes that sought sanctuary. These Indians were known as Mashpee. Three communities live in Barstable County (Mashpee, Yarmouth, and Waquiot) and a community in Bristol County near Fall River.
 * Massachuset
 * Nauset
 * Nipmuc Live in the central part of Massachusetts near Grafton, Worcester, Gardner, and Mendon.
 * Pennacook
 * Pocomtuc
 * Stockbridge a tribe of the Mahican Confederacy. In 1785 moved to New York and taken in by the Oneida.
 * Wampanoag Many Wampanoag live in Martha's Vineyard at Gay Head. They own their own small town.

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The following list of tribes and bands of indigenous people who have lived in Massachusetts has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico...  and Swanton's Indian Tribes of North America.


 * Mahican
 * Mashpee 1660 a reservation was established for Christianize Indians from a number of tribes that sought sanctuary. These Indians were known as Mashpee. Three communities live in Barstable County (Mashpee, Yarmouth, and Waquiot) and a community in Bristol County near Fall River.
 * Massachuset
 * Nauset
 * Nipmuc Live in the central part of Massachusetts near Grafton, Worcester, Gardner, and Mendon.
 * Pennacook
 * Pocomtuc
 * Stockbridge a tribe of the Mahican Confederacy. In 1785 moved to New York and taken in by the Oneida.
 * Wampanoag Many Wampanoag live in Martha's Vineyard at Gay Head. They own their own small town.

Reservations were established as westward expansion and settlement occurred. Tribes ceded land and were removed to restricted and reserved land. Reservation status ended in 1869 for all Indians Statewide.

The following reservation names have been compiled from The National Atlas of the United States of America, the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America , and American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas.


 * Gay Head Reservation -- An 1860 census of the residents of Gay Head Reservation was published in Mass. Senate No. 96 publication, March 1861 and has been transcribed and made available online.
 * Hassenamisco Reservation
 * Mashpee (Cape Cod) Wampanoag Tribe Date Allotted or lost 1842
 * Harring Pond Allotted or Lost 1850
 * Yarmouth assimilated or joined Herring Pond
 * Fall River established 1701
 * Dartmouth established 1861
 * Namatakeeset established 1675 Clark Island
 * Oynkaagog Sold 1840
 * Natick Sold last land 1828
 * Hassanamisco 1848
 * Chappaquiddick (Martha's Vineyard) established 1849
 * Christiantown
 * Gayhead established 1849
 * Wampanoag Reservation