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Indian Wars:
Pocasset Wampanoag tribe supports Cape wind farm
A Wampanoag Indian tribe from Massachusetts is supporting a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm opposed by two tribes closer to the project.
The Pocasset Wampanoag chairman George Spring Buffalo wrote to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who is considering the 130-turbine Cape Wind project.
The Mashpee and Gay Head Wampanoag say Cape Wind would be built on long-submerged burial grounds and interfere with sacred rituals.
Buffalo wrote Wednesday that his tribal elders had never seen or heard about those rituals.
He said Cape Wind fits a vision for energy "produced in harmony with nature."
Minor Detail: Buffalo said his 200-member tribe isn’t federally recognized, like the other tribes.
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