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- ↑ Datz, Bob. "Nipmuc chief passes the pipe of leadership". telegram.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- ↑ Milto. "Massachusetts Targets Health Education Program to Native American Women". Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- 1 2 Wagner, Susan (January 20, 2014). "Leading in Central MA: Cheryll Toney Holley, Chief, Nipmuc Nation". Go Local Worcester. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
- ↑ Benally, Suzanne (June 2014). "We are Still Here: Tribes in New England Stand Their Ground". Cultural Survival Quarterly. 38 (2). Retrieved April 27, 2015.
- ↑ "Contested Legal Realities: Different Approaches to the Law in Indian Country". Five College Consortium. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
- ↑ "13th New England Regional Genealogical Conference" (PDF). NERGC. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
