EXHIBITS
Our Story: The Complicated Relationship
of the Indigenous Wampanoag and the Mayflower Pilgrims
Permanent exhibit at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
In partnership with SmokeSygnals, a leading Native American creative agency, the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum established a new, permanent exhibit, Our Story: The Complicated Relationship of the Indigenous Wampanoag and the Mayflower Pilgrims.
Visit the Museum
460 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
Mashpee Wampanoag Museum
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Museum was a dream, then a passion of Amelia Peters Bingham, in which she saw the opportunity to highlight the rich indigenous culture and historic significance of the Town of Mashpee, on Cape Cod, known as the Land of the Wampanoag. The idea also coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 1870 incorporation of the Town of Mashpee. The Native Community embraced the concept of self-determination to show the world who we are and how we survived the conquest of America.
For more information about the Museum events or scheduling a visit, please call (508) 477-9339.
Visit the Museum
414 Main Street, Mashpee, MA 02649
Tel: 508-477-9339
Mashpee One Room Schoolhouse
Visit Mashpee’s historic one room school house Mondays during the summer months. Learn its role in Wampanoag history. Take a tour with Richard DeSorgher welcoming you as the old school master. Also stop by the Mashpee Historical Commission, located nearby, which houses many gems of Wampanoag history, books, pictures, artifacts.
School House open Mondays 11-2 from Memorial Day until Indigenous People’s Day in October.
Tour available Mondays or by appointment.
https://www.capecodmuseumtrail.com/museumdirectory/mashpee-one-room-schoolhouse
Mashpee Historical Commisson
Mashpee Historical Commission open Mondays and Thursdays 10-2 from June through December.
Mashpee 125th Anniversary: A Pictorial History
Copyright May 1995 Town of Mashpee
by Rosemary H. Burns
Mashpee, the town, incorporated one hundred and twenty-five years ago on May 28,1870, is home today to nearly 10,000 people year-round and 35,000 during the summer months. While today only a small percentage of year-round residents are descendants of the area's earliest inhabitants, in 1870 the large majority could claim an Indian heritage...
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