Mr. Huck Mills recalls when Mr. Tom Mingo caught the herrings and scaled them for smoking. It is said he sold the scales to non-natives so they could make imitation pearls. Herring were bigger and more oily then.

”On Daniels Island, there was a fish house. Daniels Island is located in South Mashpee. The Island was named after Daniel Queppish, who was the grandfather of Eben Queppish, the old basket maker... Their forefathers for generations before them went to the island in the summertime to be near the oyster beds and good eel fishing.”

—Memories of Herring & Fish

We write, and you learn about the first humans here in America—Indigenous “People Of The First Light”—and Columbus did not “discover” us! This is a horrible myth written in the history books; He did not even get to America.

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