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Ellen Strong.
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Preferred Citation:
Maspee Indian Tribe Case Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gift
Processing Information:
Processed by Ellen Strong in 1994.
Scope and Contents
Includes plaintiff's first set of requests for admissions to all defendants; defendants exhibits, copies of articles about the Mashpee Indians; kinship relations; Indian Office files; list of Mashpee Indian community members; and testimony of James L. Axtell concerning "Mashpee Tribe vs. New Seabury Corp. et. al." The suit by the Mashpee Indians to recover lands did not succeed. The court held the Wampanoag people did not constitute a tribe.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Axtell, James T
- Ethnohistory--Massachusetts
- Legal documents
- Mashpee Indians--Government relations
- Mashpee Indians--History
- Mashpee Indians--Legal status, laws, etc
- Mashpee Indians--Trials, litigation, etc
- New Seabury Corporation
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id152227
Plaintiff's ExhibitsUndatedScope and Contents
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id152228
Plaintiff's ExhibitsUndatedScope and Contents
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id152229
Plaintiff's ExhibitsUndatedScope and Contents
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id152230
Plaintiff's ExhibitsUndatedScope and Contents
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id152231
Plaintiff's ExhibitsUndatedScope and Contents
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id152232
Plaintiff's ExhibitsUndatedScope and Contents
Plaintiff's First Set of Requests for Admissions to All Defendants.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 1 id152234
The Mashpee Wampanoags: A case of ethnic resurrection1974Scope and Contents
Jean Edwards Ludtke: "The Mashpee Wampanoags: A case of ethnic resurrection." M.A. thesis, Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 2 id152235
Defendant's ExhibitsUndatedScope and Contents
Xerox copies of plaintiff's first and second sets of request for admission to all defendants and copies of other defendants' exhibits.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 3 id152236
Defendant's ExhibitsUndatedScope and Contents
Xerox copies of plaintiff's first and second sets of request for admission to all defendants and copies of other defendants' exhibits.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 4 id152237
MemorandumApril 25, 1977Scope and Contents
Memorandum from Barry A. Margolin, Native American Rights Fund to William B. Gunter concerning Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 5 id152238
Gunter MemoApril 25, 1977Scope and Contents
Memorandum from Barry A. Margolin, Native American Rights Fund, to William B. Gunter concerning Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 6 id152239
Gunter MemoApril 25, 1977Scope and Contents
Memorandum from Barry A. Margolin, Native American Rights Fund, to William B. Gunter concerning Mashpee Tribe v. new Seabury Corporation.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 7 id152240
ReportUndatedScope and Contents
Copy of The Supplemental Report of the Town of Mashpee to the President's Special Representative. Copy of memoranda to Jim Axtell and Francis Jennings from Barry Margolin. Notes in the handwriting of Professor James L. Axtell.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 8 id152241
ReportUndatedScope and Contents
Copy of The Supplemental Report of the Town of Mashpee to the President's Special Representative. Copy of memoranda to Jim Axtell and Francis Jennings from Barry Margolin. Notes in the handwriting of Professor James L. Axtell.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 9 id152242
ReportUndatedScope and Contents
Copy of The Supplemental Report of the Town of Mashpee to the President's Special Representative. Copy of memoranda to Jim Axtell and Francis Jennings from Barry Margolin. Notes in the handwriting of Professor James L. Axtell.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 10 id152243
Mashpee EvidenceUndatedScope and Contents
Answers and Objections of Defendants to Plaintiff's First Set of Interrogatories.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 11 id152244
Mashpee EvidenceUndatedScope and Contents
Memorandum, copies of articles about Mashpee Indians.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 12 id152245
Mashpee EvidenceUndatedScope and Contents
Appendix 4. Kinship relations among district selectmen, town selectmen, and Indian chiefs. Indian Office files. List of the Mashpee Indian Community by Bernice Grant, Town Clerk. Other papers relating to the Mashpee Indians.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 13 id152246
Legal ProcedingsUndatedScope and Contents
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation, et al. Fifth Day. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 14 id152247
Legal ProcedingsUndatedScope and Contents
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation, et al. Sixth day. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 15 id152248
Legal ProcedingsUndatedScope and Contents
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation, et al. Sixth day continued. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 16 id152249
Legal ProcedingsUndatedScope and Contents
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation, et al. Seventh Day. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 17 id152250
Legal ProcedingsUndatedScope and Contents
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation. Seventh day continued. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 18 id152251
Legal ProcedingsUndatedScope and Contents
Testimony of Professor James L. Axtell at the trial of Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corporation. Eighth day. U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts