Brent Maracle is the Lead Pastor at Christ Revolution Church. Brent Maracle has spoken on Native issues at several universities, worked with over 100 Native American and Alaskan Native villages, and lived on four reservations.
Johnny Cole is the Director of Equity and Student Supports for Lexington Public Schools. Mr. Cole works to enact systemic change in schools and conducts a wide variety of diversity training workshops.
Topic: Cycles of Oppression and the Native Community
Christoph Strobel is an associate professor in the History Department at UMass-Lowell and the author of the forthcoming book Native Americans of New England. He is also the author of the Global Atlantic: 1400–1900 and The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire, and coauthor, with Alice Nash, of Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth-Century America. He has published three books on immigration and his scholarly essays appear in various academic journals and edited collections. His talk is entitled "Legacies of 1620 and the Mayflower: Native Americans in New England.”
Amy E. Den Ouden is associate professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. She is author of Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England.
Professor Den Ouden has done extensive archival, oral history and ethnographic research as a part of her work for the federal acknowledgment projects of the Eastern Pequot and Golden Hill Paugussett tribal nations in Connecticut. She is currently working with the Herring Pond Wampanoag to gain federal tribal status. Professor Den Ouden will speak with us about the role of a historian and historical documents in helping tribal nations obtain federal recognition and sovereignty and her current work with the Herring Pond Wampanoag, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Born & raised on the Narragansett Tribal reservation in Charlestown Rhode Island, Annawon eventually made his home in his mother’s Wampanoag community located in Mashpee, MA.
Following in his father “Tall Oak”'s footsteps, Annawon began sharing the culture of his tribes with his family during public programs and performances at a very young age. As an adult, Annawon's passion for preserving the culture has been clear throughout decades spent working at Plimoth Plantation (Museum Interpreter/Outreach Educator) & Boston Children’s Museum.
To read more about Annawon, visit his website
Topic: Cultural Identity & Appropriation