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The Wampanoag Nation presented their story through singing, dance and spoken word, for the first time, in Plymouth in spring 2023.
This incredible opportunity consisted of We Are The Land, a one-off performance in Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Lyric auditorium on 23 April 2023, followed by a week of workshops and performances in The Drum (25–27 April 2023).
The Wampanoag have been stewarding their land for over 10,000 years across several of the Eastern States of the USA including Massachusetts. Their land was where the Pilgrim Fathers landed on and colonised, creating settlements that established modern America, to the detriment of the Wampanoag nation.
The voice of the Wampanoag was silenced - We Are The Land offered an opportunity to understand their relationship to the soil, how it was taken away, and how the tribe have re-established themselves.
The impact of the colonists’ arrival on the Native Americans who had long lived on that land has long been widely marginalised in the telling of Mayflower history.
Some 400 years later, the Wampanoag Nation were finally able to tell their story in Plymouth UK - the very city from where the Mayflower set sail for America.
We Are The Land will be performed at Theatre Royal Plymouth in a significant moment in world history.
An afternoon in The Drum with Linda Coombs, author, historian, and culture keeper from the Wampanoag Tribe
Film Showing and Q&A with Paula Peters (author of Mashpee Nine).
Join NLC board member Kitty Hendricks as she takes us through NLC’s aim to preserve healthy landscapes for all living things and help restore land back to its original state wherever possible.
This evening will celebrate that with an array of artists from the Wampanoag Nation sharing their craft.
The voice of the Wampanoag was silenced, but now We Are The Land is an opportunity to understand their relationship to the soil, how it was taken away, and how the tribe have re-established themselves.
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