All Our Relations: Art of the Wampanoag Nation
This art exhibit celebrates the endurance of the People of the First Light through authentic, contemporary art from tribal citizens with an artistic intellect informed by and deeply rooted in their Indigeneity.
A Piece of Silver: Wampanoag Performance
Written and performed by Siobhan Brown (Mashpee Wampanoag). Based on recorded conversations with her two hard working grandmothers, this one-act-play uplifts stories of generational healing, renewal and liberation, and is surely one not to miss.
All Our Relations: An Evening with Wampanoag Musicians in Solidarity with Juneteenth
Join Nutahkeemun Artist Collective for an evening of Indigenous Music featuring Wampanoag musicians in solidarity with Juneteenth. Featuring EJ Mills Brennan, Kitty Hendricks-Miller, ZYG 808 and Asa Peters and more!
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, July 30th Author Talk With Joseph Lee: Nothing More of This Land
Weaving stirring personal narrative with global Indigenous perspectives, Nothing More of This Land is a powerful exploration of what it means to be Native today. In conversation with Linda Coombs, author and historian from the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah.
First Light Flashback
Annawon Weedon's one-person, creatively profound and deeply moving performance depicts the Wampanoags' encounter with settler colonialism from first encounter through the present, vividly bringing to life the true Wampanoag experience.
Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda Day of Action
Join our action day at the State House. We need more legislative senators and representatives to co-sponsor our bills and more community organizations and individuals to endorse our bills.
We Are the Land
Experience the story of four centuries of the Wampanoag People in this beautiful play filled with song, dance, and spoken word. A community devised play that shares the true Wampanoag experience.
Source to Sea Training Programs
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
Land Care Day - Nemasket Village, Middleborough
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.
Land Care Day at Native Land Conservatory's Cotuit Cottage
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.
Martin Luther King Annual Breakfast January 20 at the Coonamessett Inn
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”
We and the Land Are One Thing: Wampanoag Health Equity Symposium
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”.
Indigenous Peoples Day
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)
Wampanoag Experience Powwow—Round the Bend Farm
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.
Orange Shirt Day Rally
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.