I found a list of #NewEngland #PowWows! Some have already passed, but they usually happen around the same time every year (at least the ones in Maine). This may not be a complete list...

New England (Plus) Powwow & Event Schedule 2025

May 3 Spring Awakening PowWow 435 WMain St #TiltonNH - 603-723-4982 nhinac.org/

May 4 UMass Boston Pow wow 100 Morrissey Blvd #BostonMA [email protected]

May 10 Dartmouth 1 E Wheelock St #HanoverNH [email protected] 603-646-2110

May 17-18 UNACC’s 28th Annual Unity Days Powwow 29 Antietam Street #DevensMA [email protected]

May 24-25 #OdenongPowwow 21 Mattoon St #AmherstMA [email protected]

May 24-25 AIS Powwow Camp Marshall 92 McCormick Rd #SpencerMA

May 31 - June 1 #AlsteadNH PowWow Millot Field Chief Paul Bunnell @ 978-337-9085

May 31 -June 1 42nd WIIC Powwow 394 Pleasant Dale Rd #RutlandMA Wiiccenter.com

June 6-7 #MetisOfME Powwow Yellow Feather Cultural Center - 106 Gould Road, #DaytonME 207-838-1956

June 14-15 #Wollomonuppoag 51st Annual PowWow 947 Park St, #AttleboroMA 508-838-4478

June 27-29 LIHA Good Time PW 117 Osgood Road, #SanborntonNH 03269 www.lihaofnh.net

July 12-13 #MtKearsarge Indian Museum Powwow 18 Highlawn Rd #WarnerNH [email protected]

July 19-20 Wells PowWow Harbor Pk 331 Harbor Rd, #WellsME 603-723-4982 nhinac.org

August 2-3 #Pocumtuck Homeland Festival Unity Park #TurnersFallsMA [email protected]

August 16-17 #Mohegan Wigwam Festival 340 Massapeag Side Rd #UncasvilleCT

August 23-24 #FourDirections #InteribalPowwow 200 Mountain View Dr #DixfieldME 207-740-0375

August 31 - Sept 1 LIHA Labor Day Powwow 117 Osgood Road, #SanborntonNH www.lihaofnh.net

September 6-7 42nd Annual #Nipmuck Powwow Lake Siog Park Dug Hill Rd #HollandMA 508-347-7829

Source: WanderingBull.com

#NewEnglandPowWows #PowWows #MetisOfMaine #2025PowWows #NativeAmericans #Intertribal #Metis

President: There are only two #genders
Algoguian: sure, animate and inanimate

I wanted to learn more about the #Nipmuck people, those of the land in which I live, so I found a dissertation on their #grammar and #language.

https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/items/0fb2392b-6422-49c0-8498-7f45d1f1a243

#Mishoon Completed in #WestportMassachusetts

"Weeden, of the #MashpeeWampanoag Tribe, and Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines (No Loose Braids), of the #NipmucNation, have served as artists-in-residence at a 'mishoon burning' at the Westport Town Farm on Drift Road, guiding the construction of a traditional Wampanoag mishoon, or canoe, that would have been familiar to his ancestors here hundreds of years ago."

May 31, 2023

"We've done (these things) for thousands of years but over these last few hundreds of years, you can't even light a fire without a permit. You can't do a lot of things — I can't even beat a drum and sing, and that's my form of worship. And that is the #Wampanoag experience. We have to walk it every day."

Read more:
https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/2023-june-mittark-blog/2023/5/31/mishoon-completed-in-westport

#SettlerColonialism #NativeAmericanTraditions
#Nipmuck #IndigenousTraditions
#Massachusetts #PreservingNativeAmericanTraditions

Charlestown Traditional #Indigenous #CanoeBurning First Time In 400 Years

Nov 5, 2022

CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — "Indigenous tribe members gathered in #Boston for a traditional canoe burning for the first time in four centuries. Members burned a large piece of white pine and carved out the inside to create a #mishoon, a traditional canoe.

"Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines Jr. of the #Nipmuc tribe said his group waited for five months to perform their graft inside Boston for the first time in 400 years.

"'My ancestors weren't allowed to do things like this anywhere near the city over the last 400 years,' Thomas Green, a Massachusetts tribe member, told WBZ's Kendall Buhl. 'We did not disappear, we did not die off, we are still here.'"

In the 1670s, a law made it punishable by death for an indigenous person to enter the city of Boston unless accompanied by a musketeer. The law banned indigenous people for almost 330 years. The ban was repealed in 2004."

Read more:
https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/-charlestown-traditional-indigenous-canoe-burning-first-time-in-400-years/

#SettlerColonialism #NativeAmericanTraditions #Nipmuck #IndigenousTraditions #Massachusetts #PreservingNativeAmericanTraditions

Just saw a piece about #Nipmuc / #Nipmuck Mishoon burning on the news. The way they make the Mishoon was a lot like how I learned to burn bowls out of a piece of wood. It's too bad none of them own land on what used to be their tribal waterways. #SettlerColonialism and #RealEstate wheeling and dealing made sure that didn't happen. I hope that changes. #Landback

Preserving Our Heritage: The Art of Mishoon Burning

June 4, 2024 / By Barbi Gardiner

"The Nipmuc/k people have endured many challenges throughout history, from the arrival of European settlers to the impact of the Industrial Revolution. Despite these obstacles, our community has remained resilient, preserving our language, traditions, and connection to the land. The stories of our ancestors, their skills, and their knowledge continue to be passed down through generations, ensuring that our rich heritage is not forgotten."

https://www.outdoorapothecary.com/mishoon-burning/

#HassanamiscoNipmuc #ProjecvtMishoon #PreservingNativeAmericanTraditions