https://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20190422/wampanoags-among-us-herring-pond-wampanoag-medicine-man-troy-currence By Emily Clarkeclark@wickedlocal.comPosted Apr 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM    I live in Bourne. I am Wampanoag from my mother’s side and also Catawba (Native American) from my father’s side and so my bloodline here is I go back to my mom who is Hazel Harding Currence, and then I go back through her to my grandfather Maurice Belmont Harding. This series features Pilgrim and Wampanoag descendants to honor Plymouth 400th Commemoration Herring Pond Wampanoag Medicine…

https://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20191016/herring-pond-wampanoag-win-bid-for-their-burial-ground By Emily Clarkeclark@wickedlocal.comPosted Oct 16, 2019 at 6:00 AM    In the spring of 1840, the family of Dina Chummuc gathered around a little plot off Long Pond Road in Cedarville, mourning the loss of the 19-year-old Herring Pond Wampanoag PLYMOUTH – In the spring of 1840, the family of Dinah Chummuc gathered around a little plot off Long Pond Road in Cedarville, mourning the loss of the 19-year-old Herring Pond Wampanoag. What she died of…

https://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20190320/herring-pond-wampanoag-burial-ground-transfer-hits-snag Their dead are buried here, so the town gave them back the cemetery that, by rights, belonged to them in the first place. PLYMOUTH – Their dead are buried here, so the town gave them back the cemetery that, by rights, belonged to them in the first place. Now, Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe chairlady Melissa Ferretti says state law is preventing Herring Pond Wampanoags from taking ownership of the…

https://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20181205/herring-pond-wampanoag-burial-ground-comes-home Alice Hirsch, wife of Solomon Webquish, died Aug. 11, 1859 and was buried here, on a hill in Cedarville, off Long Pond Road. Hirsch was laid to rest alongside relatives and cousins like Dina Chummuc who died at the age of 19 April 17, 1840, Antone Francis, who was 31 when he died in 1840 and Lucy Anah, who was buried here in 1831, never to see her fourth…

https://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20180905/herring-pond-wampanoag-asking-for-six-acres-in-south-plymouth It’s an innocuous article toward the back of the fall Town Meeting warrant affecting a relatively small hidden property at the southern end of Plymouth. But for the Herring Pond Wampanoag tribe it could be an important step forward. PLYMOUTH – It’s an innocuous article toward the back of the fall Town Meeting warrant affecting a relatively small hidden property at the southern end of Plymouth. But for the…

https://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20190408/wampanoags-among-us-herring-pond-descendant-warren-harding This series features Pilgrim and Wampanoag descendants to honor Plymouth’s 400th anniversary. “I was born and brought up here in Bourne. I went to Bourne schools. It’s right on the Plymouth town line. “When I was young, we used to go to PowWows. Things like that – they don’t have them anymore. My people were here thousands of years ago. I don’t give it much thought because I figure…