The Thanksgiving story deeply rooted in America’s school curriculum frames the Pilgrims as the main characters and reduces the Wampanoag Indians to supporting roles. It also erases a monumentally sad ...
The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...
HA HA! A MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT POWWOW. NIPMUC TEACHING TRADITIONAL SKILLS TO THE NEXT GENERATION. IT LIGHTS A SPARK INSIDE SOMEBODY WHEN THEY START TO LEARN A TRADITIONAL PRACTICE. WAMPANOAG ARTISTS ...
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans ...
The story of the first Thanksgiving is familiar to many, but the details of the actual feast held in 1621 are often misrepresented. The meal shared between the Wampanoag Native Americans and the ...
In her Rhode Island kitchen, Deborah Spears Moorehead pores over a collection of Census records scattered across her table. The Native American painter, who was recently an artist-in-residence at ...
MASHPEE — Under the shade of canopy tents squeezed side-by-side on the grass, parents braided their children’s hair and dancers tied the last knots on their traditional regalia before the kickoff ...
Smoke curls gently out of the wetu. Under a bright blue sky, a warrior holds up a spear with a fish pierced on the end. The gray fish has an "x" for an eye, no fins and a toothy grin — the artistic ...