This article appears in Issue 10 of the Reckonings Newsletter. Read the full newsletter here.
From left to right: Amira Madison, councilwoman and member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah, speaking at the colloquium, David Weeden, Gordon Henry. Not in the photo are panelists Linda Coombs and Camille Madison.

American Indian Sovereignty in Massachusetts

On April 9 at Snell Library, four Wampanoag community leaders from Mashpee and Aquinnah held a highly educational exchange with the audience at a one-day workshop facilitated by Reckonings Faculty Affiliate, Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence, and award-winning poet Gordon Henry. Panels of Henry’s students and scholars from Northeastern and the Boston area rounded out the day.