Shelli Costa, who has served as the Education Director at the Westport River Watershed Alliance for the past 18 years, was recently named the new Executive Director of the Coggeshall Farm Museum.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the friendship and pact formed between Plymouth Colony s leader Edward Winslow and the Massasoit Ousamequin, which enabled America as we know it today to be formed.
As families across the country celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday, many Indigenous people and supporters will observe the National Day of Mourning, founded in Plymouth in 1970.
Organizers say the event is both spiritual and political a remembering of the genocide of their ancestors and the theft of Native land.
Starting at noon, United American Indians of New England will lead a prayer service at the statue of Massasoit Ousamequin, across the street from Plymouth Rock, followed by a speaking program and march.
Jean-Luc Pierite, board president of the North American Indian Center of Boston, said it’s a day to correct the historical record and support Indigenous communities.
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