Food Encyclopedia. Prized by gourmets throughout the world, sweetbreads are the thymus glands (called neck or throat sweetbreads) and pancreas (called heart, chest or stomach sweetbreads) of young animals, usually calf or lamb, sometimes pig.The former is elongated, the latter rounder and larger.weetbreads from milk-fed veal or young calves are considered the best. Those from young lamb are quite good, but beef sweetbreads are tougher and pork sweetbreads (unless from a piglet) have a rather strong flavor.
Wampanoag means People of the First Light. In 1616, John Smith erroneously identified the Wampanoags as Pakanoket. The Pakanoket tribes were centered around present day Bristol, Rhode Island. In 1614, Adriaen Block identified the Wampanoag's on his map as Wapanoos. Other names used to identify these tribes were Wapenock, Massasoit and Phillip's Indians.
TRIBAL LANDS. The Wampanoag trust lands are located in the southwest portion of Martha's Vineyard Island in the town of Gay Head. In accordance with 1987 Settlement Act with the federal government there are approximately 485 acres of Tribal Lands purchased (160 acres private and approximately 325 acres common lands).