Nothing More of this Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity
By Joseph Lee
Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2025

Martha’s Vineyard is an iconic destination for wealthy elites, but it has also been the ancestral home of the Wampanoag people for over 10,000 years. Today nearly three-quarters of tribal members live off-island, displaced by the rising cost of living. Nothing More of This Land takes a journey across time and place to unpack what it means to be Indigenous. Shedding the idea that Indigenous identity can only be tied to ancestors, land, and history, Lee shows how peoples world-wide have found ways to strengthen their ties to each other and their legacies.

About the Author
Joseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer who teaches creative writing at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, NY. His work has been published in The Guardian, BuzzFeed News, Vox, winning multiple awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association and a Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellowship at Grist.

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