People of the Light: A Presentation by Annawon Weeden

86 West Main Street,Merrimac MA 01860

24 September, 2022

Description

Families will see the construction of a shelter, listen to some traditional storytelling, play a game, and make a cornhusk action figure. The audience will also have opportunities to ask questions about the Wampanoag tribe. For decades, Mr. Weeden has shared his cultural knowledge with the public. He is an enrolled member of his mother's Mashpee Wampanoag tribal community located on Cape Cod. He currently works in the MPTN Cultural Resource Dept. as the Eastern Woodland song/dance instructor for his father's Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Community located on their reservation in South Coastal, RI. He has worked at the Plymouth Plantation as a museum interpreter and as a Native program at the Boston Children's Museum and has made many school and library presentations. Mr. Weeden has also represented his tribe as an actor in films shown on National Geographic, PBS, and the History Channel. Annawon looks forward to any opportunity to share his cultural knowledge with public audiences while engaging others in cultural preservation for future generations of better understanding.