Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request that the law entitled " An Act for the better regulation of the Indian, Mulatto and Negro proprietors of Gayhead in the county of Dukes County" be repealed
An affirmation of the existing law concerning actions of debt between Natives and non-Natives, a request that the bounds of their lands be surveyed ,and a complaint regarding claims to land rights by some
A request for relief from the encroachments of neighbors and others outside of the community and a description of the losses resulting from the encroachments
A request of Phebe Gould for the appointment of a suitable person to sell her interest in land in order to pay the debts of her deceased mother, Lydia Squinn