One of the most revered elders of the Mashpee Wampanoag, Mable Avant, was a modern woman Sachem who taught young and old about tribal rituals, foods, traditions, and the importance of honoring the earth. Everyone loved to go camping with her. Miss Mable was also quite a poet who wrote extensively about her beloved Mashpee. Always involved politically, the independent Avant would listen to outsiders who would come to town meetings with precarious schemes to dupe Mashpee in some way. She would reveal the outcome of the plan, and admonish the person as the culprit scurried away to the howling delight of the Wampanoag audience.