Talk:Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe

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Hi, I removed this paragraph that was added by an IP. While a bare URL of "To Make Them Like Us: European-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century North America" by Jennifer Agee Jones was listed as a reference, the essay contains no mention of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe. The cited information about genetic testing already mentions European and African ancestry and intermarriage. Yuchitown (talk) 19:59, 8 March 2023 (UTC)Yuchitown

''It is worth noting, who and when these individuals are that were tested, whether a single individual, multiple, one family, or associated with the current enrollment of the tribe is unknown. Presently, in the year 2023 there is no current proof of these records reflecting all, or even portions of the tribe's community. Like many New England tribes in the area, as a result of early contact with Europeans and immigrants in the 1600's and beyond, mixing and inter-marrying in subsequent generations occured. ''

Yuchitown (talk) 19:59, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

info/needs updating
Hello. The Seaconke Tribe is state recognized in Massachusetts and has been for years. 199.30.77.35 (talk) 03:14, 13 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Do you have a citation for that? Yuchitown (talk) 04:43, 13 March 2023 (UTC)Yuchitown
 * https://www.rilegislature.gov/Special/comdoc/House%20Judiciary/02-23-2021-H5385-From%20Representative%20Vella-Wilkinson.pdf
 * They are state recognized in Massachusetts and currently trying to gain state recognition in Rhode Island. The Wikipedia page should reflect the fact that they are still a state recognized tribe in Massachusetts which it currently does not. 96.225.48.16 (talk) 19:30, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Just to follow up with this, the Commonwealth of Massachusett's Commission on Indian Affairs was never vested with the authority to create state-recognized tribes. Many groups work with the MCIA, but that doesn't make them state-recognized, despite congratulatory resolutions mentioning them. In a February 2024 MCIA meeting, developing a state recognition process is discussed. The NCAI lists several Massachusetts organizations, including the Seaconke, as being "state recognized." They don't have the authority to confer state-recognition (that would come from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts), but that listing can be added to the article. Sources also keep providing Rhode Island addresses for the organization. Yuchitown (talk) 16:15, 15 May 2024 (UTC)