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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Reservations in Massachusetts. Mashpee Wampanoag, reservation land in Mashpee (Barnstable County) and Taunton (Bristol County) Gay Head (Aquinnah), Dukes County...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    "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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    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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  • 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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    remained. For example, the Wampanoag tribe maintains at reservations at Aquinnah; at Grafton, on Martha's Vineyard; and at Mashpee, on Cape Cod. The Nipmuck...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    The 2012 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election...
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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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    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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    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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  • Helen Manning (category Aquinnah, Massachusetts)
    enrolled citizen of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe. She is known for her book Moshup's Footsteps: The Wampanoag Nation, Gay Head/Aquinnah: the People of First...
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