Chief Two Running Elk's family's roots in what is now known as Westport, Massachusetts, go back thousands of years. His family's story weaves together the historical accounts of the Royal family of the Pocasset-Pokanoket Wampanoag, the Mayflower settlers, Cape Cod's whaling
industry, the abolitionist and back-to-Africa movements, and the history of African American wealth, farming, and homesteading in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fortunately, this incredible story remains legible today in the landscape of the family's ancestral home: the historic Wainer
Woods Farm. Today the descendants of Michael Wainer and a team of scientists, artists, and activists, led by Pocasset Wampanoag of Pokanoket Nation Chief Nij-Pajikwat-Mo'z (Chief Two Running Elk;
Chief Robert Cox; Chief Rob), are developing plans to revitalize this historic property and share it with those interested in learning more about Native American and African American history in Westport.
