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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — Archaeologists are continuing their work in Greenfield after an enlightening discovery that has changed the way historians view the path of conflict between British soldiers and Native Americans during the Great Falls Massacre of...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — Archaeologists studying the Great Falls Massacre have made progress in their pursuit to understand the 1676 battle with new musket ball and artifact discoveries near Meridian Street, Colorado Avenue, Colrain Road and Nash’s Mill Road in...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — Marking the return of the annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival, paddlers set off from Barton Cove on Friday, with a traditional Wampanoag dugout canoe called a mishoon leading a group of kayaks, canoes and paddle boards down the Connecticut...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — With the annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival, organizers look to blend centuries of Native American history and culture into a weekend of celebration.The land where the festival will be held on Aug. 3 and 4 holds particular...

By SAM FERLAND

GREENFIELD — The Conway School of Landscape Design is working with the Nolumbeka Project on designs to preserve the 61-acre Wissitinnewag site in a way that makes it more accessible through an efficient trail system and parking area, while also...

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

SHELBURNE FALLS — “Powerlands,” a documentary film about Indigenous displacement and resistance, will be shown at Memorial Hall on Sunday, June 16, at 4 p.m. as a fundraiser for Indigenous nonprofits Native Land Conservancy and No Loose Braids.Doors...

By DOMENIC POLI

TURNERS FALLS — The 348th anniversary of the Great Falls Massacre will be marked with a Day of Remembrance on Saturday, as well as a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the reconciliation ceremony held to establish friendship and trust between...

GREENFIELD – Western Mass Rights of Nature and the Nolumbeka Project are holding a pair of events at Greenfield Community College on Friday and Saturday that will teach attendees more about Native American culture.The two organizations first invite...

By STELLA TANNENBAUM

Slowly but surely — and not without opposition — age-old efforts to change images of Native Americans that many view as offensive have gained new momentum across Massachusetts, sparking conversations about history, representation and what it means to...

By CHRIS LARABEE

Drawing on her own background of being an adopted Native American child and her journey to find her birth parents, a Greenfield author and activist is launching her fifth book alongside an ambitious project to document other adoptees.Longtime...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — As the last month of Northfield’s 350th anniversary celebration kicks off, the public is invited to Dickinson Memorial Library for the premiere of a long-running oral history project.After taking on smaller, individual- and family-focused...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — The 23 schools in Massachusetts that use an image of an Indigenous person as their school mascot would have to start looking for new names and logos under a pair of bills that advocates hope will get passed this session.After years of...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Residents are invited to the Sunderland Public Library on Tuesday, Nov. 21, for a presentation and discussion about a locally produced photobook.The library is hosting photographer Sandra Matthews and Nolumbeka Project President David...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

SHELBURNE FALLS — Despite some unforeseen circumstances casting a shadow on the event, art, music and food highlighted the beauty of Indigenous culture during the Shelburne Historical Society’s third annual Indigenous Peoples Celebration on...

By BELLA LEVAVI

The public is invited to join together in a tribute to Native American culture and history in the Shelburne area on Sunday.The Shelburne Historical Society will host its third annual Indigenous Peoples Celebration on Sunday, Oct. 15, from 11 a.m. to 4...

By CHRIS LARABEE

CONWAY — Gathered on furs and blankets in a wigwam, Conway Grammar School students are getting a first-hand look at Native American history and culture over two days this week.Throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, students and teachers are joining the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

Weeks of research into a change they would like to see in the world prompted students at Fort River School in Amherst to champion the idea of Indigenous Peoples Day becoming a state holiday. This week, three sixth graders brought their expertise on...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — A new center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst aims to harness both Indigenous and Western environmental science to tackle issues relating to climate change, food insecurity and archaeological preservation.The center, officially...

By CHRIS LARABEE

CHARLEMONT — Since 1974, the giant fiberglass Native American statue outside the Native and Himalayan Views souvenir shop has watched over Route 2.Now, more than four decades later, the controversial statue is on the move following months of...

By BELLA LEVAVI and JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — Organizers of the Pocumtuck Homelands Festival celebrated a decade of bringing people together to learn about Native American culture and history over the weekend.The 10th annual festival, put on by the Nolumbeka Project with help from...