~ Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe ~

We are the Plymouth Tribe of Indians known as the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe (HPWT). Our people have continued to live within our homeland, and today we continue our struggle to protect our cultural heritage and land rights as an indigenous people.

The traditional post contact allotted lands of the HPWT contained three separate parcels, mostly in Plymouth but partly in Bourne in total about 3,000+ acres, namely the Great Lot (about 2,600 acres), the Meetinghouse Lot (about 200 acres) and the Herring River Lot know to the tribe in the 21st Century as “The Valley” (about 400 acres). 

We have long known our historical lands have been subjected to externally imposed processes intended to legitimize the taking of our lands, and to convey the idea that such processes are an inevitable aspect of European, and Euroamerican, “conquest.” 
However, we are not a “conquered” people, we are a brave, resilient and determined people, well aware of our history and our rights. 

 WE are NOT ERASED!