Aquinnah (/əˈkwɪnə/ uh-KWIN-uh; Wampanoag: Âhqunah) is a town located on the western end of Martha's Vineyard island, Massachusetts, United States. From...
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of Gay Head (Aquinnah) (Wampanoag: Âhqunah Wôpanâak) is a federally recognized tribe of Wampanoag people based in the town of Aquinnah on the southwest...
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Reservations in Massachusetts. Mashpee Wampanoag, reservation land in Mashpee (Barnstable County) and Taunton (Bristol County) Gay Head (Aquinnah), Dukes County...
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its border with the town of Aquinnah. Chilmark had the highest median home sale price of any town or city in Massachusetts in 2013. Governor Thomas Mayhew...
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several populations of Native Americans in Massachusetts. The Wampanoag tribe maintains reservations at Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard and at Mashpee on Cape...
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Wampanoag (redirect from Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts and Rhode Island)
the appeal. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) are headquartered in Aquinnah, Massachusetts. Aquinnah translates as "land under the hill". They are...
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Gladys Widdiss (category Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
Chief of the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Gay Head. Widdiss attended the Gay Head School and Tisbury High School in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where she graduated...
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Kennedy owns Red Gate Farm, her mother's 375-acre (152 ha) estate in Aquinnah, Massachusetts (formerly Gay Head) on Martha's Vineyard. The New York Daily News...
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Aquinnah Cultural Center (ACC) is a non-profit museum and education center, based in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, dedicated to preserving and promoting Aquinnah...
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Nearly all of Massachusetts territory had been incorporated by 1815, with the final three areas of Erving (1838), Gay Head (now Aquinnah) and Mashpee (both...
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Casino Aquinnah Cliffs Casino Plainridge Park Casino MGM Springfield Encore Boston Harbor Legal forms of gambling in the U.S. state of Massachusetts include...
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Algonquian languages (category Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
eastern and midwestern U.S. states have names of Algonquian origin (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.), as do many cities:...
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James Taylor (category Folk musicians from Massachusetts)
industry and has operated The Outermost Inn, a bed-and-breakfast in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, with his wife since 1989. In 1951, Taylor and his family moved...
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Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,555 at the 2020 census. Along with Chilmark and Aquinnah, West Tisbury forms "Up-Island"...
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Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop (category People from Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
Harrison. In 1869 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts began the process of incorporating the town of Gay Head (as Aquinnah was called before 1998) by dividing...
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Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead (category Buildings and structures in Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead, is an historic house at 35 South Road, Aquinnah, Massachusetts, United States. The c. 1890s house is the first built by a member...
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Hiacoomes (category People from Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
Hiacoomes (~1610s – 1690) was a Wampanoag American Indian from the island of Martha's Vineyard, (Wampanoag: Noepe), who in 1643 became the first member...
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Gay Head–Aquinnah Town Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the center of the American town of Aquinnah, Massachusetts. The district...
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Coneconam (category Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
Coneconam was an early 17th-century enslaved Wampanoag man, and later, it is suspected, sachem of Manomet. In 1611, Coneconam and Epenow were kidnapped...
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"Oral History Unit: An Interview with Aquinnah Wampanoag Elder Helen Manning". Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Archived from the original on June...
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Nantucket (redirect from Nantucket County, Massachusetts)
1, 2, 5 and 6, of Falmouth, in Barnstable County; Chilmark, Edgartown, Aquinnah, Gosnold, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and West Tisbury, all in Dukes County; and...
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Amos Smalley (category People from Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
of the last great Sachem of Aquinnah - Mittark and how Mittark, on his death bed, warned of strangers coming to Aquinnah. As a sign of his prophecy, he...
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Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (category Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
graduate from Harvard in 1665. He died of tuberculosis in Watertown, Massachusetts less than a year after graduation. One document remains from Cheeshahteaumuck's...
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Epenow (category Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
Epenow (also spelled Epanow) was a Nauset man from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts who was kidnapped by sailors from an English merchant ship and taken...
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Linda Coombs (category People from Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
historian from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Coombs is the former program director of the Aquinnah Cultural Center. Coombs began a museum career...
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Tashtego Point (category Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
Tashtego Point (65°44′S 62°9′W / 65.733°S 62.150°W / -65.733; -62.150) is a rocky point marking the east end of the ridge at the south side of Stubb...
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List of disasters in New York City by death toll List of disasters in Massachusetts by death toll List of disasters in Canada by death toll List of disasters...
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Gay Head Light (category Buildings and structures in Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
Martha's Vineyard westernmost point off of Lighthouse Road in Aquinnah, Massachusetts. When the first Congress of the newly formed United States government...
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date, this is the last time that the city of Amherst and the towns of Aquinnah, Belchertown, Stockbridge, and Wendell voted Republican. Berkshire Bristol...
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Martha's Vineyard (redirect from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts)
Wampanoag population on the Vineyard, mainly located in the town of Aquinnah. Aquinnah means "land under the hill" in the Wampanoag language.[citation needed]...
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