12,000 Years of Wampanoag History
Presentation with Hartman Deetz

Wednesday, August 19 at 1:00 PM
In-person in Community Rooms AB

12,000 Years of Wampanoag History will open with the migration stories and archaeological record supporting our migration up the coast, and then move through settlement intertribal politics and governance, into colonization post colonial occupation, to the renewed political power and cultural revival in the late 20th and current 21st century struggles.

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About our Presenter:

Hartman Deetz is an enrolled member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, who has spent over 30 years educating and advocating around issues of Native American rights and environmental justice. Deetz is currently working with Charles River Watershed Association and the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. Deetz’s art work ranges from contemporary arts such as painting and lino cuts that often incorporate social themes and issues, and through to museum quality traditional wampanoag arts such as wampum and wood carving.

Through his work in arts education and advocacy Deetz has traveled through 48 of the lower 48 states to Peru, Mexico, Bermuda, France, Switzerland, and the UK.