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My wife is a retired teacher who taught for many years in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Chelsea is a very small lower-income town on the northern edge of Boston. She says that a lot of the people who live there are actually Wampanoag Indians. The officially-recognized Wampanoags live in Mashpee and Martha's Vineyard. To avoid being forced to leave their homes, the ones in Chelsea pretended to be Portuguese. Now they are no longer afraid to admit being Wampanoag, but have no official recognition as being part of the Wampanoag tribe.