2023 Series: Building Relationships, Building Equity: Acknowledging the Continuing Wampanoag Presence on Cape Cod. We Still Live Here

All events are free.

"America" was built upon European contact and and the imposed colonization of Indigenous people.  These processes must be recognized and acknowledged for the history of this country to ever be understood in rightful context, or to develop a culture of balance, peace and respect. Understanding Wampanoag narrative and culture is part of the foundation to uplift outcomes for healthier communities on Cape Cod and the Islands. This series of events will help to make intentional efforts to address disparities in the greater community.

Join Linda Jeffers Coombs for a discussion of Delilah Sampson Gibbs who is known as a “widow and last of her tribe” in this vicinity. Delilah left us with very few but very intriguing and fascinating records. She is a mysterious figure in our town’s history. Linda Jeffers Coombs is an author and historian from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).

The MLK Action Team of Nauset Interfaith is excited to announce this series of events.

Live Here (Film and Discussion)
July 11, 2023
6:00 PM
Eastham, Chapel in the Pines
Linda Coombs

Mashpee Nine (Film and Discussion)
August 3, 2023
6:00 PM
Wellfleet Library
Paula Peters

Guided Walks and Stories
New Moon
September 16, 2023 (rain date September 17, 2023)
10:00 AM
Wellfleet woods and waterways
Marcus Hendricks

Poetry Reading and Visual Arts
September 19, 2023
6:00 PM
Eastham Library
Robert Peters

Before 1620, Who Was Here? and Delilah Gibbs, Wellfleet’s Last Indian?December 6, 2023
1:00 PM
Wellfleet Library
Linda Coombs

Wampanoag Museum Visit
October 20, 2023
1:00 PM
Mashpee Wampanoag Museum
Anita Peters

Holistic Healing: Indigenous Voices
Roundtable Discussion: Institutional and Systemic Disparities in the Health Care System
November 2023
Date, time, and location TBA

For more information email: capecodmlkactionteam@gmail.com