Culture Bearer Series: Lifeways

390A Summit Road,Exeter RI 02822

28 July, 2022

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Join us at Tomaquag Museum on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 6:00pm for an evening with Indigenous educator Nakai Northup as he presents "Lifeways". This will be the fourth in our 2022 Culture Bearer Series. Throughout the year Tomaquag Museum hopes to introduce you to some incredible Indigenous educators who have been vital to the work of sharing and preserving cultural knowledge. This year long series was made possible thanks to funding from The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, The Papitto Opportunity Connection, The New England Foundation for the Arts, The Rhode Island Council for the humanities RI Charg, other anonymous funders and many community donors. Nakai Northup serves as head of education at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum where he's spent more than 10 years developing educational programs on eastern woodland tribal history and culture for visitors of all ages. Nakai is the vice chair of the Tribe's Natural Resources Protection Committee. He also serves as a board member of the Stonington Historical Society. An avid hunter and fisherman, Nakai is a frequent speaker and lecturer on historic preservation, environmental Indigenous activism, food sovereignty, and teaching traditional eastern woodland histories and lifewavs. Having both Mashantucket Pequot and Narragansett bloodlines, Nakai has spent his entire life on both reservations and is a passionate advocate and activist for Native American rights. With a strong love for his tribal communities and as a father of two beautiful children, Nakai is dedicated to preserving tribal histories and passing down cultural traditions to younger generations.