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Chaubunagungamaug Reservation in Webster, Massachusetts

Webster, Massachusetts

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, was established in the 1680s for the group of Nipmuc Indians

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now known as the Webster

Webster, Massachusetts

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/Dudley

Dudley, Massachusetts

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Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck.

For two centuries (the 1680s until the 1890s), this reservation supported a community of Nipmuck. From the 1890s until the mid-1970s the Nipmuck presence on this land consisted of the Morse family and their immediate relatives. From 1978 through the mid-1990s, the Chaubunagungamaug Band, as an organization, appears to have consisted, essentially, only of the extended Morse family.

Together with the Hassanamisco Nipmuc

Hassanamisco Nipmuc

The Hassanamisco Nipmuc, from whom the four and a half acre Hassanamesit Reservation in Grafton, Massachusetts takes its name, are a group of Nipmuc Indians native to Central Massachusetts, Northeastern Connecticut, and parts of Rhode Island...

of Grafton, Massachusetts

Grafton, Massachusetts

Grafton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,765 at the 2010 census. Grafton is the home of a Nipmuc village known as Hassanamisco Reservation, the Willard House and Clock Museum, and the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine...

and other families and individuals who identified as Nipmuc Indian, this group received recognition from the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs in 1979.

Although the Nipmuck are recognized by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in 2004 the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior. It is responsible for the administration and management of of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American...

decided that the Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuc group does not meet four of the seven mandatory requirements for U.S. Federal Government acknowledgment as a "nation".

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