Photos: Oakes Agnus Coombs Jr. and his wife Amanda Pocknett, daughter of Nathan Pocknett and Eleanor Hicks. She was the widow of Thomas William Gardner. These photos were featured in the 125th Anniversary of Mashpee Celebration 1995. Credit: Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts, Archives.

Thomas Tupper: Missionary to Plymouth Colony Indians

By Melissa Berry on September 20, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Thomas Tupper, a missionary to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in the Plymouth Colony... (Read More)

Richard Bourne: Missionary to Plymouth Colony Indians

By Melissa Berry on September 18, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Richard Bourne, a missionary to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in the Plymouth Colony... (Read More)

Photo: Mandan girls gathering berries. From the Edward S. Curtis Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Celebrating Native American History: From Ancient Times to Modern Insights

By GenealogyBank on July 25, 2024

Delve into the history of Native Americans & gain an understanding of their heritage. Explore the traditions and contributions of indigenous peoples... (Read More)

Illustration: a close-up of the portrait of Abraham Quary by Jerom Thompson, 1834. Credit: New York Public Library, New York.

Abraham Quary, the Last Male Wampanoag Indian on Nantucket

By Melissa Berry on April 9, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry shows portraits and belongings of Abraham Quary (1768-1854), the last male Wampanoag Indian on the island of Nantucket... (Read More)

Photo: Clinton Mye Haynes (Chief Wildhorse) of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe smoking a pipe. Credit: William Brewster Nickerson Cape Cod History Archives, Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Mayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 4)

By Melissa Berry on February 29, 2024

Melissa Berry continues her series on the genealogy of the Wampanoag Tribe, friends of the Pilgrims, focusing on the Skipper and Mye family lines... (Read More)

Photo: members of the Wampanoag Nation who gathered for the three-day powwow of their tribes at Mashpee, Massachusetts, in 1929. Left to right: Chief Standing Rock of the Herring Pond Tribe; Chief Red Shell of the Wampanoags; Chief Small Bear of the Mashpee Tribe; and Chief High Eagle, medicine man of the Wampanoags. Credit: Boston Public Library Digital Commonwealth.

Mayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on February 16, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on the genealogy of the Wampanoag Tribe and its Mayflower connections, focusing on the Attaquin family... (Read More)

Photo: Mashpee Wampanoag ceremony in Middleborough, Massachusetts, 1930. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.

Mayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on February 13, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on the genealogy of the Wampanoag Tribe, the Indians who were in first contact with the Mayflower Pilgrims... (Read More)

Mayflower Descendants & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on February 9, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry begins a new series on the genealogy of the Wampanoag Tribe, the Indians who were in first contact with the Mayflower Pilgrims... (Read More)

Illustration: political cartoon of the Osage Indian murders depicting Mollie Burkhart and William King Hale. Credit: Daily Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio), 18 January 1926, page 1.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Terror in the Osage Nation

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on November 27, 2023

Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about the true story in Martin Scorsese’s recent movie "Killers of the Flower Moon.".. (Read More)

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