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The Wampanoags Of Mashpee (1979-04-01)
About this film
"'The Mashpee Wampanoags' is one of seven programs in the new educational television series PEOPLE OF THE FIRST LIGHT. The series is the first culturally oriented set of programs to portray the Native American peoples living in the southern New England region. It focuses on ways in which the history and tribal traditions of Indians in this area are integrated into the daily activities of Native American children and adults surviving today in [Massachusetts], Connecticut, and Rhode Island."In the town of Mashpee, on Cape Cod in Mass., there is a small community of Mashpee Wampanoag Indians. The program 'The Mashpee Wampanoags' highlights that today, the members of this indigenous tribe are living, working the land, fishing the bays, and maintaining the longstanding culture of their ancestors who had inhabited the same lands for thousands of years. PEOPLE OF THE FIRST LIGHT was funded by the U.S. Office of Education and serves the need for general understanding of the Native American in the Northeastern U.S.--the individual, the tribe, the culture."--1979 Peabody Awards entry form.
Directors & creators
WGBH Educational Foundation
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Vernon Pocknet, People of the First Light, U.S. Office of Education, Mashpee, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Native American culture, environmental destruction, traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous land rights, Wampanoag traditions, shellfishing, pollution, land development
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