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Every year, my tribe-the Aquinnah Wampanoag-celebrates Cranberry Day on the second Tuesday in October. It's one of our most important gatherings, when the tribe comes together to pick wild cranberries in the bogs by the beach. Starting early in the morning, we spread out across the squelchy bogs, steadily filling buckets and baskets with the firm, red berries. I grew up away from our homelands on Martha's Vineyard, but my family always made a trip back to the island for Cranberry Day.
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