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. Columbus did not arrive to a vast, undeveloped land. Rather, he encountered a people living in community, in harmony with land they had cared for over thousands of years. (2024 Education Series.)

First Light Flashback is a dramatic enactment reflecting personal experience and Tribal history of "People of the Dawn”, the Wampanoag people pre-European contact to the present day. Performer Annawon Weeden, from the Mashpee Wampanoag and Narragansett tribes, has been awarded a Congressional Honor as Culture Bearer for the entire New England region for his continued efforts to correct misinformation and misrepresentation of Indigenous people. (2024 Education Series.)

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.

Wampanoag children sharing their traditional culture with non-Native kids with display of traditional regalia, dancing, drumming, canoe burning, storytelling, cornhusk doll-making, traditional food.

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.

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, with panel of Wampanoag teachers providing context. Film can be accessed on our website.