Wampanoag tribe of gay head aquinnah of massachusetts

Information about this center is no longer updated. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah are the legal caretakers of over acres of mostly undeveloped land in Aquinnah, MA. The entirety of Aquinnah and Noepe (Martha’s Vineyard) is the traditional and unceded territory of the Wampanoag people, who have lived here for over 12, years.

Phone: Email: chairwoman wampanoagtribe. This data was last updated on 22 October Skip to main content. Main Menu Utility Menu Search. Please call for a seasonal schedule. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) (Wampanoag: Âhqunah Wôpanâak[2]) is a federally recognized tribe of Wampanoag people based in the town of Aquinnah on the southwest tip of Martha's Vineyard (Wampanoag: Noepe, the land amid the streams [3]) in Massachusetts (Wampanoag: Mâsach8sut[2]), United States.

The Gay Head Wampanoags have several departments, including: Education, responsible for scholarships, assuring that Wampanoag history is taught accurately in schools, and running a reference library; Health, providing a clinic, contract health services, community health outreach and injury prevention programs; Human Services, which maintains child welfare, social worker services and elder services; Natural Resources; and Economic Development.

Events The tribe organizes an annual spring social, a pageant of the Legends of Moshup, and a Cranberry Day celebration is held on the second Tuesday of October. The ancestors of Wampanoag people have lived for at least 10, years at Aquinnah (Gay Head) and throughout the island of Noepe (Martha's Vineyard), pursuing a traditional economy based on fishing and agriculture.

Aquinnah Cliffs, Moshup Trail, Natural Resources, Environmental and Economic Planning. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard. Such recognition has been extremely important to the tribe, bringing with it the return of tribal lands, federal grants to build housing and administrative offices, and strengthening its rights to repatriate tribal property stolen from them.