Baxter Lecture: 400 Years Of Wampanoag History
Channel: GBH Forum Network
Date: 2021-06-24

Paula Peters is a scholar and a politically, socially, and culturally active member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. She’ll discuss the romanticized myth of the Pilgrims’ arrival and the true cost of colonization from the perspective of the indigenous people.

By exploring the history of contact prior to 1620 we can begin to understand the decisions that were made upon their arrival off the coast of Cape Cod and the transition from the village of Patuxet to the Plimoth colony.

This talk is sponsored by the Baxter Fund and is part of the Repairing America Initiative at the Boston Public Library, a pledge to focus its 2021 programming and services on bridging the gaps that divide America.

RESOURCES

Learn more about Paula Peters' organization Smoke Signals
https://www.nativeamericancreative.com/

Article "A Mother-And-Son Duo Are Re-Examining History To Illuminate Wampanoag Stories," Nov. 27, 2020 on WBUR. https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/11/27/smokesygnals-curators-wampanoag

Learn more about Wampum at American Ancestors 
https://wampum.americanancestors.org/

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