Paula Peters is a journalist, educator and activist. A citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, she travels internationally to speak and educate on the true Wampanoag story. Here she tells the story of the 1833 Woodlot Revolt, in which Wampanoag activists were arrested but the Wampanoag achieved a period of self-rule until 1870.
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Thank you, Ms. Peters, for this eye opener history that many of us white people never knew about before. It seems to me insulting to the Wampanoag that they had to petition for self-rule; and then to have it "expire" in 1870? Obscene!