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Maspee Indian Tribe Case Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Includes plaintiff's first set of requests for admissions to all defendants; defendants exhibits, copies of articles about the Mashpee Indians; kinship relations; Indian Office files; list of Mashpee Indian community members; and testimony of James L. Axtell concerning "Mashpee Tribe vs. New Seabury Corp. et. al." The suit by the Mashpee Indians to recover lands did not succeed. The court held the Wampanoag people did not constitute a tribe.
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
Jean Edwards Ludtke: "The Mashpee Wampanoags: A case of ethnic resurrection." M.A. thesis, Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts.
Xerox copies of plaintiff's first and second sets of request for admission to all defendants and copies of other defendants' exhibits.
Xerox copies of plaintiff's first and second sets of request for admission to all defendants and copies of other defendants' exhibits.
Memorandum from Barry A. Margolin, Native American Rights Fund to William B. Gunter concerning Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation.
Memorandum from Barry A. Margolin, Native American Rights Fund, to William B. Gunter concerning Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation.
Memorandum from Barry A. Margolin, Native American Rights Fund, to William B. Gunter concerning Mashpee Tribe v. new Seabury Corporation.
Copy of The Supplemental Report of the Town of Mashpee to the President's Special Representative. Copy of memoranda to Jim Axtell and Francis Jennings from Barry Margolin. Notes in the handwriting of Professor James L. Axtell.
Copy of The Supplemental Report of the Town of Mashpee to the President's Special Representative. Copy of memoranda to Jim Axtell and Francis Jennings from Barry Margolin. Notes in the handwriting of Professor James L. Axtell.
Copy of The Supplemental Report of the Town of Mashpee to the President's Special Representative. Copy of memoranda to Jim Axtell and Francis Jennings from Barry Margolin. Notes in the handwriting of Professor James L. Axtell.
Answers and Objections of Defendants to Plaintiff's First Set of Interrogatories.
Memorandum, copies of articles about Mashpee Indians.
Appendix 4. Kinship relations among district selectmen, town selectmen, and Indian chiefs. Indian Office files. List of the Mashpee Indian Community by Bernice Grant, Town Clerk. Other papers relating to the Mashpee Indians.
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation, et al. Fifth Day. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation, et al. Sixth day. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation, et al. Sixth day continued. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation, et al. Seventh Day. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation. Seventh day continued. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation. Eighth day. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts