Massachusetts Tribe Still Stunned by Interior Decision

Members of the Massachusetts-based Mashpee Wampanoag tribe are still disbelieving the recent action by the Department of the Interior, which ruled that its earlier action put more than 300 acres into trust would be reversed. The ruling came two years after a federal judge ruled that the department erred in putting the land into trust in the first place. Tribal vice chair Jessie Little Doe Baird (l.) tearfully pleaded with Congress to restore the land.