The community needs to heal, and I think that one of the problems of our former leadership was the disconnect with them, and not listening to the people,” Weeden said. “That’s something that we plan on restoring by listening to our clan mothers, our spiritual leaders, our chief, our medicine man, all of our elders. That’s what we’re trying to do with restoring the integrity of the tribe and just leading from the heart.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As for economic prosperity without a casino, Weeden has a plan. The chairman wants to create a deer farm on the tribe’s land, sell venison to local distributors, and tan the deer hide to make and sell traditional clothing. Another idea is to run canoe tours on the Mashpee rivers and waterways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freshly inaugurated Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council Chairman Brian Weeden isn’t as enthusiastic on a casino resort as his predecessors. Weeden beat out three others last month to lead the Massachusetts tribe. The position became vacant after former Chair Cedric Cromwell was ousted from office after being indicted on federal charges in an alleged bribery scheme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":176013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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