- Joined
- Jun 30, 1998
- Location
- Bierland
April 24, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bob Cooper (PRGUYNOW@YAHOO.COM)
Days and Evenings: (401) 447-6474
PRESS RELEASE
Paranormal Disturbance at Lincoln Dog Track
Bad Medicine warns Wampanoag Chief
Wampanoag Chief Wilfred Eagle Heart Greene, was shocked to hear of increased paranormal activity in and around the racetrack in Lincoln and the Monastery in Cumberland.
This could be very bad medicine. the chief exclaimed. Medicine men have told me to expect this, but, well, you know, who wants to seriously talk about ghosts today?
The report was publicly released yesterday by the Valley Rangers Paranormal Investigators, a research group based in Cranston who has investigated paranormal activity throughout RI, CT and MA, but has concentrated on the paranormal energy in and around the Monastery in Cumberland and the Dog Track in Lincoln for over ten years. They have nothing to do with the Wampanoag tribe and were not known to the tribe until the report was released.
The report summarizes that Wampanoag Ancestors may be responsible for this increasingly active paranormal activity in and around their ancient lands.
Yes there was a very old Wampanoag settlement there, the Chief said. There was also a Wampanoag fort that pre-dated the American Revolution. One day family members discovered the fort was just gone as contractors had torn it down without permission to make way for the racetrack around 1954.
That land is sacred Wampanoag land dating back to antiquity. Even when they invented the unsigned deed that descendents of the Colonists filed 50 years after the date of the alleged transaction, they dared not take the land around what is now the racetrack. It was specifically held for the Wampanoags because back then everyone knew it was sacred ground to us.
As to the apparitions, Chief Greene responded, I suppose its possible, but Id have to see it for myself. He then went on, Actually there may be a reason for this. You have to understand that during King Philip's War in 1675, EVERY Indian Tribe on the Eastern Seaboard and Canada was either neutral or fought for and under the great Wampanoag Chief Metacom (King Philip) son of Massasoit. Every tribe . . . EXCEPT the Mohegans . . . who fought against their fellow Native Americans under Chief Uncas.
Uncas and his people executed many Native Americans, and while history shows that King Philips hiding place was betrayed by an Indian in the service of Captain Church, it is most likely that that Indian was also Mohegan.
You can see why our ancestral spirits may be a little miffed even at the mention of the Mohegans! Chief Greene said with a wry smile. That land is Wampanoag ancestral land. It is our history, and it is our future. It must not be soiled by Mohegans or any other tribe. If spirits ARE at work there, the worst thing to do would be to violate Native American Indian law and take part in putting another Indian tribe on Wampanoag land. That would be very bad medicine.
Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe
www.seaconkewampanoag.com
C/o Atty. Earl F. Pasbach
225 Waterman Avenue, East Providence, RI 02914
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bob Cooper (PRGUYNOW@YAHOO.COM)
Days and Evenings: (401) 447-6474
PRESS RELEASE
Paranormal Disturbance at Lincoln Dog Track
Bad Medicine warns Wampanoag Chief
Wampanoag Chief Wilfred Eagle Heart Greene, was shocked to hear of increased paranormal activity in and around the racetrack in Lincoln and the Monastery in Cumberland.
This could be very bad medicine. the chief exclaimed. Medicine men have told me to expect this, but, well, you know, who wants to seriously talk about ghosts today?
The report was publicly released yesterday by the Valley Rangers Paranormal Investigators, a research group based in Cranston who has investigated paranormal activity throughout RI, CT and MA, but has concentrated on the paranormal energy in and around the Monastery in Cumberland and the Dog Track in Lincoln for over ten years. They have nothing to do with the Wampanoag tribe and were not known to the tribe until the report was released.
The report summarizes that Wampanoag Ancestors may be responsible for this increasingly active paranormal activity in and around their ancient lands.
Yes there was a very old Wampanoag settlement there, the Chief said. There was also a Wampanoag fort that pre-dated the American Revolution. One day family members discovered the fort was just gone as contractors had torn it down without permission to make way for the racetrack around 1954.
That land is sacred Wampanoag land dating back to antiquity. Even when they invented the unsigned deed that descendents of the Colonists filed 50 years after the date of the alleged transaction, they dared not take the land around what is now the racetrack. It was specifically held for the Wampanoags because back then everyone knew it was sacred ground to us.
As to the apparitions, Chief Greene responded, I suppose its possible, but Id have to see it for myself. He then went on, Actually there may be a reason for this. You have to understand that during King Philip's War in 1675, EVERY Indian Tribe on the Eastern Seaboard and Canada was either neutral or fought for and under the great Wampanoag Chief Metacom (King Philip) son of Massasoit. Every tribe . . . EXCEPT the Mohegans . . . who fought against their fellow Native Americans under Chief Uncas.
Uncas and his people executed many Native Americans, and while history shows that King Philips hiding place was betrayed by an Indian in the service of Captain Church, it is most likely that that Indian was also Mohegan.
You can see why our ancestral spirits may be a little miffed even at the mention of the Mohegans! Chief Greene said with a wry smile. That land is Wampanoag ancestral land. It is our history, and it is our future. It must not be soiled by Mohegans or any other tribe. If spirits ARE at work there, the worst thing to do would be to violate Native American Indian law and take part in putting another Indian tribe on Wampanoag land. That would be very bad medicine.
Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe
www.seaconkewampanoag.com
C/o Atty. Earl F. Pasbach
225 Waterman Avenue, East Providence, RI 02914
