Join us for the Opening Ceremony on the point overlooking Wigwam Rock.

Fife & Drum Welcome: Stony Creek Fife & Drum Corps welcome & performance (10:20 - 10:40)

Opening Ceremony & Veteran Remembrance: Native Prayer, welcome, historical reflections, roll call of Nehantic Revolutionary War veterans, Wigwam Rock beacon fire, moment of silence, and Nipmuc flute music (10:40 - 11:45)

Following the Opening Ceremony, the Stony Creek Fife & Drum Corps will lead guests towards the pavilion, vendors, and exhibits. 

Enjoy two performances by Strong Eagle 'Many Feathers' Daly, a member of the Nipmuc Tribe and a dedicated father, artist, and musician. 

12:15 to 12:40 -  Explore vendors and exhibits while Strong Eagle Daly plays the flute at the amphiteater.

2:00 to 2:40  - Strong Eagle Daly shares traditional storytelling, cultural insights, and flute music.

Strong Eagle has spent the majority of his adult life becoming proficient in creating handmade wooden flutes and intricate carving of animal designs on his instruments. With wisdom passed down from his elders, he has since made numerous flutes and found his voice through playing them. He has performed at a variety of events, including weddings, funerals, large concerts, and tribal pow-wows. In 2011, with the help of a small team, he released a music CD titled Eagle’s Song to the Sun. His performances have also been featured at venues such as the Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS). Rooted in his connection to Mother Earth and the Creator, he found being able to play for his community was not only a gift from Spirit but medicine for his spirit and heart. Whilst Strong Eagle begins his transition to elder, it is with humbleness he hopes to continue to connect with people through his music. 

Join us at the pavilion at 1:00 pm to hear a presentation by special guest Deborah Spears Moorehead on Indigenous peoples and their participation in the Revolutionary War.

Deborah Spears Moorehead is a Massachusetts State Recognized Enrolled Member of The Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag Tribal Nation. She is a direct descendant of many Eastern Woodland Native American tribal leaders. is an award-winning, internationally recognized Native American Fine Artist.  She earned a Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability from Goucher College in 2013 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts in 1981. She also attended continuing education courses at Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University and Rhode Island College. Deborah is a published Author and Cultural Bearer of Traditional Storytelling and Eastern Woodland Native American Music. She is the owner and Director of Painted Arrow Studio, Talking Water Productions, and a founding member of the Nettukkusqk Singers. All of her artistic expressions, literature, and music performances serve to recover, educate, assert, promote, value, and validate the identify of the past, present, and future generations of Eastern Woodland Tribal Nations. Her creative expressions, which include paintings, murals, music, lectures, sculptures, clothing, and greeting cards, have been featured in museums, magazines, and galleries all over the world.

“Throughout my life, I have been deeply involved in various aspects of my Eastern Woodland Native American ancestry, culture, and connection to the homelands as stewards of the land. I have conducted extensive research over the past fifty years and have transformed it into various artistic expressions, including murals intended for activism and education, as well as literature, lectures, and music performances. My homeland inspires my art and tells a unique story. I belong to the Wampanoag Tribal Nation of the Seaconke and Pokanoket. I am a descendant of many regional Sachems, including Chief Sachem Massasoit, who befriended the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, saving their lives during their first winter in Pokanoket homelands. Sassacus of the Pequot tribal Nation and John Sassamin of the Ponkapoag Massachusett are also in my ancestry. As an emic observer, I am immersed in my own cultural heritage and community, allowing me to understand and interpret experiences from an insider’s perspective. The primary focus of my work is in connecting the missing narratives of regional History, particularly in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which have been disrupted or omitted in America’s version of History, resulting in the attempted erasure of our indigenous past.”

Join us for the closing observance and Honor Song, with traditional flute music and remembrance of ancestors.