Leaders of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (Massachusetts) will  discuss efforts by the Interior Department to disestablish the Tribe’s reservation. The 60-minute listening session will be held May 4 at 2 p.m. It will feature Cedric Cromwell, chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Nation, and Jessie little doe Baird, vice chair. They will co-host the session with First Congregational Church of West Tisbury via Zoom. For dial-in, call (929) 205-6099. Meeting ID: 914 2038 3777. Password: 798988.

For more information and a link to the session go to www.wtcongregationalchurch.org.

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has launched a #StandwithMashpee campaign on Facebook and YouTube. The Tribe said it has received more than 271,000 signatures on a petition.

“The Secretary of the Interior has ordered that our reservation be disestablished and that our land be taken out of trust,” Chairman Cromwell said in a statement. “ Not since the termination era of the mid-twentieth century has a Secretary taken action to disestablish a reservation.”

According to the Cape Cod Times, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hold a hearing May 7 on the Tribe’s motion for a preliminary injunction in a bid to preserve its land in trust status.