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Location in Barnstable County and the state of Massachusetts.
Mashpee / m pi/ is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod.
The populace was 14,006 as of 2010. It is the site of the command posts and most members of the federally recognized Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, one of two Wampanoag.
For geographic and demographic knowledge on specific parts of the town of Mashpee, please see the articles on Mashpee Neck, Monomoscoy Island, New Seabury, Popponesset, Popponesset Island, Seabrook, and Seconsett Island.
Avant House of the Wampanoag citizens of Mashpee, Massachusetts.
The historic Algonquian-speaking Wampanoag were the native citizens encountered by the English colonists here and in the region of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century.
After English colonists arrived, they began to settle the region of present-day Mashpee in 1658 with the assistance of the missionary Richard Bourne, from the neighboring town of Sandwich.
The "Old Indian Meeting House", assembled in 1684 at Mashpee, is the earliest Native American church in the United States.
Others of the citizens were brought, together with the Nauset, into the praying towns, such as Mashpee, in Barnstable County.
The colonists designated Mashpee on Cape Cod as the biggest Indian reservation in Massachusetts.
In the year 1763, the British Crown designated Mashpee as a plantation, against the will of the Wampanoag.
Designation as a plantation meant that the region governed by the Mashpee Wampanoag was integrated into the colonial precinct of Mashpee.
Following the American Revolutionary War, the town in 1788 revoked Mashpee self-government, which European-American officials considered a failure.
William Apess, a Pequot Methodist preacher, helped the Mashpee Wampanoag lead a peaceful protest of this action, and the governor threatened a military response.
The Mashpee Indians suffered more conflicts with their white neighbors than did other more isolated or less desirable Indian settlements in the state. In 1870 the state allowed the incorporation of Mashpee as a town, the second-to-last jurisdiction on the Cape to undergo the process.
Many of their descendants have remained in the region and identified as Mashpee by their communal culture.
In the early 1970s the Mashpee reorganized and filed a territory claim against the state for the loss of lands.
While they ultimately did not win their case, the Mashpee continued to precarious as an organized improve and attained federal recognition as a tribe in 2007.
Today the town of Mashpee is known both for tourist recreation and for its distinct ive minority Wampanoag culture.
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has its command posts here, and it is one of two federally recognized tribes of Wampanoag citizens in Massachusetts.
In 2015 the Department of Interior took into trust 170 acres (0.69 km2) in Mashpee as a reservation for the Wampanoag, who already controlled the land.
They also took into trust 150 acres (0.61 km2) in Taunton, Massachusetts, which the Wampanoag tribe had acquired. That action was challenged in October 2016 by a United States District Court decision, reached after a suit was filed earlier that year by opponents to Mashpee Wampanoag plans to build a gaming casino on their Taunton land.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Mashpee has a total region of 27.2 square miles (70.5 km2), of which 23.4 square miles (60.6 km2) is territory and 3.8 square miles (9.9 km2), or 14.10%, is water. Mashpee is on the "upper," or western, portion of Cape Cod.
Like all suburbs on the Cape, Mashpee's topography is that of sandy soil, small ponds and inlets, surrounded by the pines and oaks indigenous to the area.
The town contains South Cape Beach State Park along Dead Neck and Waquoit Bay, and the Lowell Holly Reservation, comprising the territory between Wakeby and Mashpee Ponds.
Mashpee also borders a small region of Otis Air National Guard Base, Joint Base Cape Cod, and Camp Edwards in the northwest portion of the town.
Climate data for Mashpee, Massachusetts Major roads include Massachusetts Route 28, Massachusetts Route 130 and Massachusetts Route 151; none of these is a freeway.
Route 130's southern end lies just outside the town limits in Santuit, a village in the town of Barnstable.
Route 151's easterly end is inside the town of Mashpee; both these roads end at Route 28, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) apart.
The Town of Mashpee is the only one on Cape Cod that never had a barns constructed to it.
The nearest airports (Cape Cod Airfield, an airstrip for small planes, and Barnstable Municipal Airport, the biggest airport on the Cape), can be found in the neighboring Town of Barnstable.
The Breeze bus lines also go from Mashpee into the suburbs of Barnstable, Sandwich, Falmouth, Bourne and Yarmouth.
Bus lines and routes may be obtained at town hall or the Mashpee Commons.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. In the town, the populace was spread out with 24.7% under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Mashpee is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the Third Barnstable district.
The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, with the exception of Bourne, Falmouth, and Sandwich. The town is patrolled by the Seventh (Bourne) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police. On the nationwide level, Mashpee is a part of Massachusetts's 10th congressional district, and is presently represented by Bill Delahunt.
Mashpee is governed by the open town meeting form of government, led by an executive secretary and a board of selectmen.
Mashpee has two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school positioned in the town.
Mashpee Middle-High School (9 12) Mashpee operates its own school fitness for the approximately 1,700 students in town.
Coombs School) is for pre-school to undertaking 2, the Quashnet School is for grades 3 to 6, and Mashpee Middle-High School is for grades 7-12.
Before Mashpee High opened its doors in 1996, students residing in Mashpee attended close-by Falmouth High School.
Mashpee High School's chief rivals are Monomoy Regional High School, Abington High School and Sandwich High School.
From 1999 to 2003 Mashpee played Sandwich High School in an annual Thanksgiving Football Game rivalry.
From 2003 2009, Mashpee played Cape Cod Regional Technical High School.
In 2009, Mashpee dropped the Thanksgiving rivalry with Cape Cod Tech and has since renewed the Thanksgiving rivalry with Sandwich, which is effective in the year 2010.
In 2011, the high school football team won the Massachusetts Division 4 State Championship by defeating Cardinal Spellman, 34-8 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.
Additionally, high school students may attend Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich no-charge of charge.
Students from Mashpee may also attend the two Catholic high schools that serve the area, Bishop Stang High School in Dartmouth, or the newly opened Saint John Paul II High School in Hyannis.
Private schools positioned in close-by communities include Falmouth Academy in Falmouth, Cape Cod Academy in Barnstable, and Tabor Academy, a private-prep boarding school in close-by Marion.
A Wampanoag language Immersion school called Wopanaot8ay Pahshaneekamuq is expected to open in Mashpee in 2016, serving preschool students in its first year and kindergarten students starting in 2017. Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1995, consisting of salt marshes, cranberry bogs, white cedar swamps, and expansive forests.
Melvin Coombs, Wampanoag Native American dancer, cultural educator, and cultural interpreter; born and raised in Mashpee Adrian Haynes, Chief of the Wampanoag Nation, was born in Mashpee.
Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots; owns a residence in the Popponesset Island region of Mashpee Paula Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe activist, educator and journalist a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Mashpee town, Barnstable County, Massachusetts".
178ff; The Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe webpage; Mashpee Wampanoag Nation webpage; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah webpage a b Kevin Horridge, "Surprise Massachusetts Casino Could Result from New Mashpee Wampanoag Land Grant", Casino.org, 21 September 2015; accessed 19 January 2017 "Mashpee, MA Weather".
"TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1, All County Subdivisions inside Massachusetts".
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
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