Ohketeau

The Ohketeau Surf Trip 2024 was waves of Fun! 🌊🏄‍♀️🏄‍♀️ 🐋 🌞⛱️🤙!
Thank you to all the participants for sharing the day with us.
Thank you to all the Ohketeau staff for thier hard work and making it possible.
If you could not make it this year, we look forward to you joining the next time.
Stay tuned for other upcoming events from Ohketeau!

We are so very proud of Ohketeau's Community Advocate and Emerging Artist, Tomantha Sylvester, for this incredible opportunity to be the Anishinaabemowin C3PO voice in the Ojibwe Dubbed Star Wars: A New Hope!! Thank you to New England Public Media, Monte Belmonte, and Kaliis Smith for taking the time to interview Tomantha and her Mother, Margaret Jackie, about this wonderful chance to preserve and share an Indigenous language. Please advocate for this movie to be shown locally, on the big screen!

Aug. 6, 2024: Frozen diasporic language We take the latest CISA Local Hero Spotlight to Flayvors of Cook Farm, learn about this weekend's African Community Festival, and chat with the voice of C-3PO in the new Ojibwe dub of "Star Wars."

Ohketeau's co-director, Rhonda Anderson, was honored to have been selected as a community member to receive the National medal in DC with the fantastic library director, Chelsea Jordan-Makely.

Congratulations to the Griswold Memorial Library Colrain for receiving the National Medal from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This award demonstrates their dedication to community outreach, creating programs so families can unite around reading bedtime stories, even while incarcerated and understanding the responsibility to create meaningful and reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities to highlight an unseen narrative and make everyone feel welcome. The fact that so many people from Colrain came to DC to support this meaningful National Medal and to have Congressman Jim McGovern attend was a great honor and speaks volumes to the essential relationships and work being done!

Well deserved and hearty congratulations!!

It was a wonderful evening! Members from the Ohketeau Cultural Center joined in celebration of Tomaquag Museum's 21st annual Honoring and Cultural Celebration.
They are the only Indigenous led Museum in the state of Rhode Island.
We thank them for thier decades of service and dedication to the local Tribal Communities and beyond!

https://www.recorder.com/New-website-serves-as-forest-stewardship-resource-55998816

New website serves as forest stewardship resource ROWE — A new website geared toward those looking to get involved with forest stewardship was recently unveiled during the annual meeting of the Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts.Woodlands Partnership members saw a need for interested...

Planning for our second annual surf trip is underway!

Space is limited. Register soon!

Transportation is available on a limited basis.

Registration link:

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https://www.capeannmuseum.org/event/indigenous-heritage-day-2/

Indigenous Heritage Day - Cape Ann Museum Saturday, July 20, 2024 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm CAM Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA Free and open to all, registration required. Parking is at O’Maley Middle School, a […]

Ohketeau is a proud partner in creating this essential online resource. Our critical lens, lifting of Indigenous individuals, organizations, and Tribal Nations to offer education, address colonization, and further relationship-building, will continue for years to come. It is a true honor to be doing this work with a partnership so robust with amazing individuals who strive to make a difference!

The Forest Center of Northwest Massachusetts (sponsored by the Woodlands Partnership of Northwest Massachusetts and the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program) is a resource provided by the Forest Climate Resilience Program, a multi-partner initiative hosted by Mass Audubon. This website provides community members and state and municipal staff with information on the region’s forests, threats to their healthy functioning, and options for land stewardship.

From this Virtual Forest Center, you can learn about the diverse forest ecosystems of Northwest Massachusetts, about forest climate change impacts & solutions, and ways to support Indigenous-led land stewardship.

About - Forest Center of Northwest Massachusetts The Forest Center of Northwest Massachusetts is a resource provided by the Forest Climate Resilience Program, a multi-partner initiative hosted by Mass Audubon.

Here are some memories from our wonderful Second Annual Youth Talent Showcase!

We would like to thank all of the youth who participated and shared so willingly with us.

We are grateful to our celebrators and emcee who gave all the youth excellent and meaningful feedback!

A big thank you to all of the Ohketeau Cultural Center staff and Double Edge Theater staff who made the day possible.

A special thanks to Tomantha Sylvester and Reina Mercado Antunez who lovingly organized this event and dedicated so much time and energy towards it for a second year in a row.

This event would not be possible without the support and participation of the community and we thank you for all of your support.

Beautiful art that is being displayed. It is not shown on our live video today but we wanted to make sure it could also be appreciated.

We will be back on live soon with more youth talent if anyone wants to tune in!!!

https://springfield.librarycalendar.com/event/adventures-kehteau-temp-hold-9376

Discover a Local Author: Larry Spotted Crow Mann | Springfield City Library Join us for this exciting event with a local author!

STARTING TOMORROW!
Public welcome noon to 6pm daily!

From Rhonda Anderson: The William Apess Day Celebration was absolutely fantastic!! Quyanaqpak to Mother Bear Anita Peters for welcoming us into space. I am so grateful that citizens of the Mashpee, Aquinnah, and Herring Pond Wampanoag and Nipmuc Tribe came to read a scene about Apess from their play, “We Are The Land.” I am so grateful that Hartman Deetz, John Jim Peters Jr., and Drew Lopenzina sat on a mini panel to share their stories and experiences with those who came to listen and celebrate. Much love to Deborah Spears Moorehead for your beautiful portrait of William Apess and your ability to tell a story on canvas.
Big gratitude goes to Chelsea Jordan-Makely, Library director, for taking so much care in listening to Indigenous communities, creating relationships of reciprocity and compassion, providing a platform to share Native narratives, a lens on history and contemporariness, and a safe and welcoming space for everyone. I have no doubts that is why the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences chose Griswold Memorial Library as one of 15 finalists for the nation's highest honor given to museums and libraries, the 2024 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. It is no coincidence that the decision will be finalized on the actual William Apess Day, May 21. Fingers crossed that GML is chosen as one of four in the nation! ((Today, it is announced that GML has been chosen to receive the nation's highest honor!!)
I am grateful to the wonderful people who came to support, celebrate, learn, unlearn, and deeply listen to this amazing event. As co-director of Ohketeau and a sponsor of this event, I am honored to support this necessary community-building work in my little hometown.

Well done, Griswold Memorial Library! Congratulations on being one of four libraries in 2024 to receive the nation's highest honor!!

WE DID IT, COLRAIN!!!

Griswold Memorial Library Recognized as a 2024 Recipient of the Nation’s Highest Museum and Library Honor

https://www.imls.gov/our-work/national-medals/2024-national-medal-museum-and-library-service

Thank You Sanderson Academy for having us!

Now recruiting! The Tribal Youth Fellowship Program is a new PAID program for Native youth. Youth members learn new skills and build on their existing strengths to tackle tribal justice issues in youth-centered ways.
Program members get to travel together, take on group and independent service projects, and build community with Native youth across regions.
To join the program, you must be a member of a Tribe, between ages 14 and 18, and want to work with other Native youth.
Learn more at bit.ly/m/tyfp. Apply by May 24, 2024!

We are so honored and grateful to be able to host this gathering of amazing and incredible artists for the Indigenous Tattoo Workshop. We are so grateful to the Nipmuc community for hosting this event, on their beautiful Pequoig Farm land.

Congratulations, Chief Cheryll Toney Holley, well deserved!

Mass Humanities is thrilled to announce the 2024 Governor's Awards in the Humanities honorees. This year we are recognizing Martín Espada, Jackie Jenkins-Scott, Bob Rivers, and Cheryll Toney Holley for their contributions to the humanities and improving public life in Massachusetts. 👏 👏

Presented in partnership with Governor Maura Healey, our annual awards will take place Thursday, September 26 at 6:30 pm at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. For more information, and to register for the event, visit our website: https://buff.ly/3U0O7fE

'sAwards Martín Espada Roxbury Community College Eastern Bank Nipmuc Nation Tribe Hassanamisco Band

Tickets are still available to share in the experience of SUGA!
Performed by dear friend and ally of Ohketeau, Travis Coe of the Double Edge Theatre.

SUGA - Welcome SUGA Returns to Double Edge Theatre April 17-21, 2024 7:30 PM SUGA is conceived, created, and performed by Travis Coe and directed by Stacy Klein. Travis began working on SUGA in 2016 as he explored the Afro-Caribbean/Latinx history of his family, and their native lands spanning Belize, Nicaragua, a...

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A Native Community Conversation Regarding Mascots, Imagery, and Cultural Appropriation

Part II The Living Presence of Our History: A Native Community Conversation Regarding Mascots, Imagery, and Cultural Appropriation is now available to watch! Please watch, listen, and share!
https://howlround.com/happenings/native-community-conversation-regarding-mascots-imagery-and-cultural-appropriation

howlround.com Indigenous community members, leaders, and scholars discussing issues associated with Native identity, health, and rights |The Ohketeau Cultural Council and Double Edge Theatre presented A Native Community Conversation Regarding Mascots, Imagery, and Cultural Appropriation livestreamed on the global...

Ohketeau: The Living Presence of Our History - 93.9 & 101.5 The River

Quyana Monte for sharing our stories and visions!

wrsi.com Rhonda Anderson and Larry Spotted Crow Mann join Monte to talk about the continued presence of indigenous communities in our…