The handsome Wampanoag is credited with reviving tribal culture and the Confederacy in the 1920's along with Nelson Simon, a Carlisle Indian School graduate. Under his leadership, The People of the First Light returned to wearing regalia, participated in Pau Wau, and the use of herbs. Queppish brought renewed focus to the Indian Town of Mashpee in the New Bedford Times and the Boston Post. Queppish was used to the publicity; after all, he was the original Native American in Bill Cody's "Wild West Show." When he died in 1933, hundreds of Wampanoag attended his funeral at the Old Indian Meeting House to pay final tribute to their leader.