Celebrate Nowashe’s 1st Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day FREE ADMISSION

Let’s Celebrate!

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we will be celebrating with extended hours from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. with FREE admission for everyone.

Please join us to experience Nowashe Village at the height of the season:

Speak with Dylan and Andrew Smith of the Shinnecock/Montauk/Unkechaug Tribal Nations and explore what it means to be a Native American today.  Ask any questions you may have or use our questions prompts to discuss topics that you may wonder about but don’t know how to or are to uncomfortable to ask

• Travel through time and learn about the Lifeways of those who lived here for thousands of years.
• Study the plants and trees that Indigenous Peoples used for food, medicine and tool-making, including the Three Sisters Garden.
• Listen to Native stories, legends passed down through oral history that helped to explain and teach.
• Enter a classroom-sized Sachem’s House and interact up close with artifacts, pottery, pelts and hides, baskets and other interior furnishings.

Stationed docents will be on hand to answer your questions.  A Native Corn craft as well as necklace beading will be available at our crafts table. We will also be playing some of our oral history interviews in the second floor assembly room of Wood  Memorial Library.  The following short films will be played on a loop:

• Mind, Body and Spirit featuring Annawon Weeden
• The Earth as a Living Being featuring Annawon Weeden and Judith Dreyer
• Common Misconceptions featuring Annawon Weeden
• Wampum is a Sacred Gift from the Creator featuring Allan Hazard

Admission to Nowashe Village always includes a multimedia self-guided tour on your personal electronic device and a look at special Native American artifacts in our Archaeology Display Case. The featured artifacts will be pottery shards — of varying sizes — found in the South Windsor Meadows. Come celebrate the Woodland Era in New England on Indigenous Peoples’ Day!