Herring Pond

HERRING POND BAND OF THE WAMPANOAG INDIANS

The Herring Pond Indians are also referred to as the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe or Comassakumkanit. Sacred places of the Tribe include the Pondville Indian Church and various cemeteries, located in both Plymouth and Bourne.  Background information on the common lands and history of the Herring Pond Tribe follow.

Partition of the Great Indian Lot of the Herring Pond common lands by Commissioners E.S. Whittemore and Nathaniel Hinckley on September 3, 1870, as recorded at the Plymouth Registry of Deeds in Book 409, Page 259.

Background information on the Herring Pond Tribe at the Native Northeast Portal maintained by the Yale Indian Papers Project.

“By recent legislation, the Indians of the Commonwealth have been fully enfranchised from the subjection in which they had heretofore been kept, and put upon the same footing as other citizens, and provision made for the division of their lands among them in severalty as their absolute property. Sts. 1869, c. 463; 1870, cc. 213, 293, 350.”

Danzell v. Webquish, 108 Mass. 133, 134 (1871)

Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe web site