A People's Guide to Firsting and Lasting in Boston

Documenting the "erasure" of indigenous peoples in and around Boston

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Castle Island & Pleasure Bay

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Alan Michelson's "The Knowledge Keepers" at MFA Boston

“Alan Michelson on ‘The Knowledge Keepers,’” MFA Boston (November 14, 2024), https://youtu.be/h8pIxRWqhAA?si=G_WskdZ6Pkl3CBYV.

"At last at the MFA, an answer to the 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' problem," Boston Globe (June 6, 2024), https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/06/arts/mfa-boston-addresses-controversial-sculpture-of-native-american/.

"MFA installs Alan Michelson’s answer to 'Appeal to the Great Spirit.' 'No one would ever take them for Native American stereotype.'" Boston Globe (November 14, 2024), https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/14/arts/mfa-appeal-to-the-great-spirit-sculpture-alan-michelson-artist/.

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Firsting, lasting, and resisting with Jean O'Brien at Salem State University (November 12, 2024)

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Golf balls found at William J. Devine Golf Course in Franklin Park

Charles River Country Club (Newton MA) & Indian Pond Country Club (Kingston MA)

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Savor the Square Community Social to Honor Indigenous Peoples (October 15, 2022), Nubian Square, Roxbury

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Freetown-Fall River State Forest (reservation established 1939)

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Wendy Red Star, “Travels Pretty”

Lower Roxbury

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Buena Vista Urban Wild, Roxbury

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Ventura Park, Dorchester (Vose’s Grove near the mouth of the Neponset River)

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Indigenous Earth Day at MIT (April 22, 2022) & Living Climate Futures Symposium

Panelists: David Shane Lowry (Lumbee), Donna Chavis (Lumbee), Ryan Emanuel (Lumbee), Jay Julius W'tot Lhem (Lummi), Santana Rabang (Lummi), Kurt Russo

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“Indian Trail” & First Meeting House, Churchill's Lane, Milton

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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“Sangre Indigena” David “DonRimx” Sepulveda Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, Roxbury

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Senator Joseph Finnegan Park at Port Norfolk, Dorchester

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Wompatuck State Park, Hingham

Josias Wampatuck (-1669)

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Roxbury Heritage State Park

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John Eliot Square and the First Church of Roxbury