To assure that the identity of the Vineyard’s Indians, their history, culture and tribal lands will be preserved, a Wampanoag Tribal Council of Gay Head was organized on Saturday, and Mrs.
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
2023
August 22, 2023
Revolution Wind received the final greenlight Tuesday to build 65 wind turbines about 14 miles southwest of Aquinnah.
June 26, 2023
Deb Haaland, the U.S. secretary of the interior, came to the Island earlier this month and met with the chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to talk about offshore wind energy and economic development.
April 4, 2023
Jordan Clark was tapped to be the new assistant director of the Harvard University Native American Program.
March 30, 2023
Kinship Heals, a Native-run nonprofit domestic violence program, closed on a property in Aquinnah that will eventually become a food pantry, domestic violence shelter, and ceremonial site for members of the Wampanoag tribe of Gay Head.
March 6, 2023
For nearly two decades, the tribe of Aquinnah as a part of the Wampanoag Confederation has worked to repatriate human remains and funerary objects sitting in museum inventories.
2022
November 20, 2022
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais defeated challenger NaDaizja Bolling 151-127 to earn her fifth term as tribal chairwoman.
