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The town of Aquinnah, the Island Grown Initiative (IGI), and other partners are developing plans for a community foraging area, on approximately three acres adjacent to the town hall. The project, dubbed the “food forest,” would join coming developments for the Aquinnah Town Center plan, which include the under-construction Carl Widdiss Way Apartments, and a […]
The 2023 Aquinnah Powwow cultural celebration took place over the weekend. According to powwows.com, powwows are Native American gatherings where they come together to sing, dance, reconnect with old friends, and celebrate their rich ancestral histories. And there was a lot of that to be seen. The Aquinnah Powwow was hosted by the Wampanoag Tribe […]
Here on Martha’s Vineyard, we are comfortable talking about and celebrating certain aspects of our history and present reality, but we rarely talk about our historical and present violence. The Aquinnah Wampanoag people have been living on Martha’s Vineyard for 12,000 years. The Aquinnah Wampanoag were a matrilineal nation where land usage was passed through […]