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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...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — The annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival will serve as an intertribal confluence once again this weekend, returning to Unity Park for its 10th year.Organized by the Nolumbeka Project — a nonprofit dedicated to cultural and historical...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — In the month since City Council voted to rezone a portion of the French King Highway, the fate of White Ash Swamp — a 10-acre portion of land included in the rezoning — remains in limbo as historical preservationists continue to push for...

DEERFIELD — A Deerfield resident and local historian has been tapped to kick off Historic Deerfield’s summer lecture series.Peter Thomas, an independent historian involved in helping plan the town’s 350th anniversary celebrations as well as several...

The board of the Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts is expanding its membership to include Indigenous representation.Following a unanimous vote taken during the board’s June meeting, the Ohketeau Cultural Center of Ashfield, a...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Native American history is a standard element of the fourth grade curriculum. However, with Deerfield celebrating its 350th anniversary this year, Jennifer Smith’s class went one step further.Throughout the year, Smith’s students at...

By BELLA LEVAVI

TURNERS FALLS — Marking the 347th anniversary of the Great Falls Massacre on Saturday, organizers with the Nolumbeka Project reflected on not only the past, but the importance of healing from it.“You are all proof that we can look at each other as...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — The Battlefield Grant Advisory Committee voted Wednesday to recommend that the Selectboard accept a proposal for principal investigator services to further study the Great Falls Massacre.The proposal, submitted by Heritage Consultants of...