Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with The Nettukkusqk Singers, Native Artisans, and free films!
Monday, October 10th, 11:30am-1pm in the Lee Mansion Garden (rain or shine)
Marblehead Indigenous Peoples Day Committee and Marblehead Museum invite you to honor and celebrate the Native history of this land. Multiple Native artisans will be offering their goods for sale from 11:30am-1pm. The Nettukkusqk Singers, an all-female group of Wampanoag and Nipmuc singers, will perform at 1pm. Free and open to the public thanks to generous sponsorship from Marblehead Bank, Marblehead Forever Committee, Marblehead Racial Justice Team, and National Grand Bank.
Related Events and Activities:
Songs and Stories of the Woodlands with Anne Jennison.
Anne is a Native American Interactive Storyteller.
Saturday, October 8th at 2pm, Abbot Hall
Free, family friendly event
Presented by the Marblehead Cultural Council
Free Documentary Films
Also, learn more about the history of the Native People of New England and their lives today with these three free short documentary films by The Upstander Project. These are free (donations to the Upstander Project appreciated) and can be viewed at home (please note their age recommendations). Click on each image to learn more and watch:
"For centuries, the United States government has taken Native American children away from their tribes and nations, devastating parents and denying children their traditions, culture, and identity. First Light, part of the Dawnland series, documents these practices from the 1800s to today and tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in truth-telling and healing for Wabanaki people and child welfare workers in Maine."
"Bounty, part of our Dawnland film series, reveals the hidden story of the Phips Proclamation, one of many scalp-bounty proclamations used to exterminate Native people in order to take their land in what is now New England. In the film, Penobscot parents and children resist erasure and commemorate survival by reading and reacting to the government-issued Phips Proclamation’s call for colonial settlers to hunt, scalp, and murder Penobscot people."
"At age two Georgina Sappier-Richardson was removed from her home and Passamaquoddy community in Downeast Maine by child protection services. She would never see her parents again. Terror and abuse followed over 16 years in four different foster homes. Dear Georgina follows this Passamaquoddy elder from Motahkomikuk as she tries to fill in the blurry outlines of her identity.
Dear Georgina, part of our Dawnland film series, follows Georgina as she tells her harrowing story of surviving foster care. Georgina is just one of many thousands of Indigenous children with similar stories."