The 12th Annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival: A Celebration of Native American Art, Music, and Cultures will include outstanding presentations by Mohawk Elder Tom Porter, beautiful flute music by Nipmuck flute maker Hawk Henries, Akwesasne singer Theresa Bear Fox, Abenaki singer-songwriter and flute player Mignon Geli, Bryan Blanchette, Nulhegan Abenaki singer-songwriter, Wampanoag artist and performer Annawon Weeden to lead social dancing, the Penobscot Rez Dog Singers, and Pua Aliʻi ʻIlima o Nuioka, a Hawaiian dance ensemble (Sunday only). We host about 40 outstanding Indigenous artists in a colorful and diverse marketplace that extends the full length of the riverside bike path on both sides. We will have history talks with authors Evan Pritchard, Mike Luoma, and David Brule and children's activities, including a tent with Kitty Hendricks-Miller, a Mashpee Wampanoag teacher who recently appeared as herself on PBS’s Molly of Denali. It is a wonderful, uplifting event, multi-generational event people look forward to every year. We hope to see you there.

FEATURING:

Saturday

Hawk Henries, Nipmuck, Native American Flute

Tom Porter, Mohawk Elder

Theresa Bear Fox, Akwesasne singer-songwriter & Mignon Celi, Flute

Iron River Singers, Intertribal Drums

Annawon Weeden, Wampanoag, leading Social dances

Bryan Blanchette, Nulhegan Abenaki Singer-Songwriter

Justin Beatty, Ojibwe, Saponi, African American, Emcee Kitty 

Hendricks-Miller, Mashpee Wampanoag, Kid's Tent

History Tent, Authors/Historians presenters: David Brule, Evan Pritchard, Mike Luoma