Come and share your thoughts and reactions to what you have learned in our 2024 Educational Series. How has these programs changed you and what you believe about the people and natural world of Cape Cod?
Although not fluently spoken for 150 years, the return of the Wampanoag language to it’s people has marked a renewal of cultural knowledge and connection. Join us to hear more!
Wampum belts are of cultural, sacred and symbolic significance to the Wampanoag nation. Paula will discuss how the search for lost treasures of Metacom following King Phillip's war in 1677 led to the revival of the traditional art of the wampum belt and connections it made to history and culture.
For our second year Wampanoag children are sharing their traditional culture with non-Native kids with display of traditional regalia, dancing, drumming, canoe burning, storytelling, cornhusk doll-making, traditional food.
Ann Gilmore and Earl "Chiefie" Mills Jr. will provide an overview of the 1976 Mashpee Landsuit and their roles in it. Ann was a member of the legal team representing the Mashpee Tribe. Chiefie gave testimony for the tribe.
Story of law enforcement abuse of power and cultural justice in 1976. Paula Peters, executive producer of the 2016 film "Mashpee Nine" and Earl "Chiefie" Mills Jr., one of the nine men brutally arrested night, tell their stories.
The processes of colonization and the aftermath of King Philip's War result in far-reaching and damaging consequences that tumble down generations of Wampanoag people.
This presentation will describe the aftermath of King Phillip's War, and how the lives, lands, and culture of the Wampanoag people were affected by the great changes that took place.
Linda Coombs, historian, educator, author and member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe, offers an important understanding of America’s beginning in her discussion of the impact of settler colonialism on the Wampanoag people prior to King Phillip's War.
A dramatic enactment reflecting personal experience and Tribal history of "People of the Dawn”, the Wampanoag people pre-European contact to the present day presented by Annawon Weeden.
