Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve are seeking interested members of the community to join project partners to plan the restoration of degraded sections of three rivers in Mashpee and Falmouth

Join our new Land and Cultural Knowledge Caretaker, Asa Peters, at the Nemasket Village land in Middleboro where he will lead the removal of invasive bittersweet that is overtaking indigenous plantings.

Come and participate in this interactive role-play history of land theft and genocide of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (aka the United States). Register now – space is limited!

Help the Native Land Conservancy tend to the lands surrounding the Cotuit Cottage, which provides lodging for NLC guests and is critical to housing the First Light Fellows every summer.

Attorney/activist Sherri Mitchell, member of the Penobscot Tribe and author of Sacred Instructions, Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change will be speaking on the "Rights of Nature", L.I.N.K.’s 2025 theme.  March 1, 1-3pm, at the Mashpee High School.   Sherri encompasses both the deep wisdom of her Indigenous culture and compassion for the impact of settler colonialism on both Native and non-Native people.

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Come celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring Guest Speaker James Morton, former CEO of YMCA Boston “Dr. King's Work and the Power of Mentorship”

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?

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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!

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This Symposium, taught by knowledge keepers from the Aquinnah and Mashpee Tribes, delves into the truth about the relationship between indigenous health and the “health of the land”.

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Falmouth community members will honor Indigenous Peoples with a program of stories and spoken word on October 14, at 11:30 a.m. at Peg Noon Park, next to the Falmouth Public Library. The event will take place rain or shine. (bring a chair)

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This powwow is a collaboration between Annawan Weeden and other indigenous communities and Round the Bend Farm. It will highlight Native skills and practices history, food, crafts, dancing, drumming and more.

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Mashpee Wampanoag Nation will celebrate the 3rd annual Orange Shirt Day, The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Along with gathering at the Mashpee Rotary and a social at the Wampanoag Government Center, all children in the Mashpee Schools will be given an orange shirt to wear to remember what happened so it never happens again.

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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.

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The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's journey to seeking Federal Recognition

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal elders and leaders sharing their personal experience and the history of Aboriginal Rights, the right to hunt, fish and forage, deeply connected to their Tribal identity.

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Workshop with Linda Coombs, Wampanoag elder, teacher, historian, museum educator, using primary sources that convey the devastating impact of “settler colonialism” on the Wampanoag people.

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9-minute film takes place in the Old Boston State House. Film shows children's poignant reactions as their Penobscot parents/grandparents tell them in real time of the US genocidal policy placing bounties on the scalps of their ancestors.

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