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Indigenous-led group receives Cape Cod plot taken from Native Americans centuries ago

The property overlooks First Encounter Beach, the site where Pilgrims from the Mayflower first came face-to-face with a local Native tribe.

By Dana Hedgpeth

November 10, 2026 at 11:30 a.m. EST

A view of the 120 acres in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, that the Native Land Conservancy will own. (Courtesy of the Native Land Conservancy)

More than 400 years after Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower ship first came face-to-face with a local Native American tribe, the Nauset, on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, a roughly 120-acre parcel overlooking the site has been transferred to an Indigenous-led conservation group.

The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia, has owned the property — which overlooks First Encounter Beach — since the mid-1980s. Indigenous leaders, conservationists and environmentalists have been working for several years to transfer the property to the Native Land Conservancy in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

The deal, which closed Oct. 30, is part of an Indigenous-led effort across the country, known as #LandBack, to reclaim ownership and stewardship of ancestral lands. The Nauset are part of the Wampanoag Nation, known for helping the Pilgrims survive their first Thanksgiving.

The deal is significant because there is increasing development pressure on Cape Cod’s limited open land. The Native Land Conservancy said it plans to preserve the habitat on the property for vulnerable sea turtles that nest in the marsh grasses.

“Getting this property back into Indigenous ownership is something you can’t put a value on,” said Paula Peters, a Mashpee Wampanoag citizen and communications and programs coordinator for the Native Land Conservancy.

Historians said the land has Indigenous roots stretching back tens of thousands of years. Weeks after the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, historians said, they had stolen corn and disturbed graves in the Nauset village. The Nauset attacked the Pilgrims, and a brief battle ensued. The colonies quickly overtook tribal lands.

By Dana Hedgpeth

Dana Hedgpeth is a Native American journalist who has been at The Post for more than two decades. She helped lead an award-winning, 18-month investigation into the deaths and sexual abuse of thousands of Native American children at government- and church-run boarding schools. 

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They Talk Peace in Abu Dhabi. Ukraine Still Lives Under the Bombs.

The first three-way talks in nine months began today. Until the bombs stop, the people of Ukraine need us more than ever as winter closes in.

Lev Parnas Nov 10

My dear Voice from Ukraine family,

Before anything else tonight, I want to say thank you. Thank you on behalf of the people of Ukraine, on behalf of Oleksandr, and on behalf of every child and every family you have helped through this platform. What you give means more than the supplies themselves. When a family in Ukraine knows that people across the world still stand with them, it gives them hope. And hope is what carries people through another night of sirens.

Today, for the first time in nine months, Russia, Ukraine and the United States sat down together in Abu Dhabi. Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, brought the two sides together for nearly four hours, and the talks continue tomorrow.

President Zelensky called the first day “constructive and quite substantive.” He said security guarantees were discussed in detail, and he was clear about what Ukraine needs: “Real tools are needed to block any recurrence of the war.” He also said both sides are working toward a large-scale prisoner exchange. For every family waiting to bring a son, a husband or a father home, that is the news that matters most tonight. I pray it happens soon.

But I am going to be honest with you, because that is what this platform is for.

Folks, a lot of what we saw today is theater. It is delusional to believe Vladimir Putin wants peace while his missiles and drones keep hitting Ukraine. These talks took place as the long-range strikes went on, and Zelensky said Russia is ramping up its attacks to pressure Ukraine at the table. That is how Putin negotiates, and he has done it every single time.

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, showed us how seriously Moscow takes this. Asked about the European officials who came to Abu Dhabi, he said they could “sit there in the hotel.” Even Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called the talks “very productive,” admitted a deal is not close.

As I always tell you: watch what they do, not what they say. Russia says it is ready to talk, and Russia keeps attacking. Until the bombs stop, every promise of peace is only words, and words do not keep a family safe at night.

Winter is closing in. When Russia hits the power grid, the cold means no heat, no electricity and no water for families who have already lost so much. The people of Ukraine cannot wait for a deal in a hotel room to get through the coming months.

That is why Oleksandr’s work matters so much. As I’ve shared with you, in recent days he visited a bedridden child who cannot leave home because there is no electricity, and a facility where children with special needs have to stay in the basement because of the constant bombing and alarms. With your help, he also reached a facility that rescues and cares for horses. These are only some of the things we have been able to document. His work goes on every day, nonstop.

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And if times are hard right now, I understand. Do what you can. Share this letter. Restack it. Forward it to three people. Bringing one more person into this community matters.

Every weekday at 2 p.m. Eastern, Voice from Ukraine goes live with Oleksandr on the ground and Yuri Rashkin. We bring you all the breaking news from Ukraine, what the media is reporting and what it is missing, straight from the people living it. Tomorrow, as the talks in Abu Dhabi continue, we will bring you the latest. I hope you will join us.

My friends, I know how tired so many of you are. But the people of Ukraine do not get a day off from this war. They have not given up on their future, and we must not give up on them.

Thank you for standing with us.

God bless each and every one of you. God bless America. Slava Ukraini.

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NEMASKET WEEK: Hewins pleasantly surprised with election results, Gaskey keeping ‘options open’

                                                              

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Hewins pleasantly surprised with election results, Gaskey keeping ‘options open’

Nov 05, 2026

                                    Sarah Hewins, center, called her district "tough" to win in. File photo

MIDDLEBORO — When Sarah Hewins went to sleep in the early hours of Nov. 4, the Democrat trailed John Gaskey (R-Carver) heavily in the vote count. Gaskey, the incumbent state representative for the 2nd Plymouth district, won Carver and the district’s three Middleboro precincts.

When she woke up later that morning, Wareham results had been reported and she had taken the lead by 89 votes.

“If anyone ever doubted that every vote matters, this is evidence that it does,” Hewins said.

Hewins, who lives in Carver, had run for the seat in 2016 and 2018 and launched a late write-in campaign against Gaskey in 2024. She said she had tried not to get her hopes up too high but was pleasantly surprised with the results and thanked her team for their hard work in getting her across the finish line.

“It’s a tough district, I will say that,” she said. “And we certainly worked for it. It was a team effort.”

Assuming certified results confirm her victory, Hewins would be the first Democrat elected to the State House from the district since Ruth Provost, who served in the role from 1997 to 2003. Longtime Rep. Susan Gifford won the seat in the 2002 election and held it until 2024, when Gaskey defeated her in that year’s primary. 

Gaskey declared victory in a Facebook post on Nov. 3 before the Wareham results were released. He has since deleted the post.

He did not say whether he would petition for a recount. 

“We are watching the numbers and keeping our options open,” Gaskey wrote to Wareham Week. Candidates have until Nov. 13 to request a recount.

Hewins listed priorities she would bring to the State House in January:  improving government transparency, lowering utility prices and giving towns more control. She also said she will pay attention to what her constituents need, something that she said has been missing for “a couple years.”

“The point is, people need someone to listen to them, and I plan to do a lot of listening,” Hewins said.

                                        A screenshot of John Gaskey's premature victory announcement on Facebook, 

                        which he posted shortly before 11 p.m. on Nov. 3 and later deleted.

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Hewins appears victorious with 89-vote margin in state rep race

Christian Uva and Nick Mossman

news@warehamweek.com

Nov 04, 2026

                          Sarah Hewins, center, stands with two supporters in front of Town Hall 

                             on Election Day. Photo by Erin Darling

With preliminary vote tallies reported at press time, Democrat Sarah Hewins appeared to be narrowly successful in her challenge of state Rep. John Gaskey (R-Carver). 

In a district encompassing all of Wareham and Carver and a portion of south Middleboro, the incumbent Gaskey won the contest in both Carver and Middleboro. The arrival of the Wareham vote count at around 7 a.m. on Nov. 4 gave Hewins a lead of 89 votes.

In total, Hewins received 9,264 votes and Gaskey received 9,175. 

Wareham appears to have given Hewins edge. She earned 5,274 votes in the town, while Gaskey got 4,548 votes.

In Carver, where both candidates are from, Gaskey won with 2,787 votes while Hewins received 2,573. Gaskey also won Middleboro by 13%, receiving 1,840 votes to Hewins’ 1,417.

The results have not yet been certified. 

Gaskey declared victory in a Facebook post on the night of Nov. 3 before the Wareham results were released, but has since deleted the post. 

This result marks the first time the district has elected a Democrat since 2000. Gaskey defeated former Rep. Susan Gifford (R-Wareham), who held the office from 2002 to 2024, in the 2024 Republican primary. He eventually beat Hewins, who launched a write-in campaign in response to his primary win.

Hewins, who has served on the Carver Select Board since 2009, ran on her long career in public service to claim the state representative seat. Ahead of the election, Hewins called herself an “independent-minded Democrat” supporting transparency in the state Legislature and combating high energy costs. 

Before her 2024 write-in campaign, she ran against Gifford in 2016 and 2018, losing by over 10 points both times. But this time, she got her win.

Gaskey, who narrowly defeated Mark Townsend for the Republican nomination in the September primary, has pitched himself as an “anti-establishment” conservative, supporting an audit of the state Legislature, advocating for looser gun laws and criticizing state-enforced housing policies. 

During his time in the state Legislature, Gaskey has also proposed several items related to transgender youth, including a proposal to ban transgender student athletes from playing on teams matching their gender identity and restrictions on youth access to gender-affirming surgeries and hormones. 

Neither candidate was available for comment ahead of press time.

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