Saturday August 1 and Sunday, August 2, 10 am to 5 pm both days, Unity Park Waterfront, First Street, Turners Falls, MA
This year, 2026, the festival will include memorable, inspiring presentations by Mohawk Elder Tom Porter and beautiful, mesmerizing flute music by Nipmuck flute maker Hawk Henries. Also, Aquinnah Wampanoag singer songwriter Thea Hopkins, and Nipmuc culture bearer Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines, who will share Eastern woodlands skills demonstrations and lead social dances which all are invited to participate. Penobscot Rez Dog Singers return and will be joined by another drum group TBA. Justin Beatty will emcee. The History Tent will feature talks by members of the Native Land Conservancy, Evan Pritchard, and David Brule. There will be children’s activities including corn husk doll making with Mashpee-Wampanoag Kitty Hendricks-Miller, Indian Education Coordinator for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. We host about 40 outstanding Indigenous artists and authors in a colorful and diverse marketplace that extends the full length of the riverside bike path on both sides. It is a wonderful, uplifting, multi-generational, accessible and free event people look forward to every year. We hope to see you there. Please contact us at nolumbekaproject@gmail.com or visit our website at nolumbekaproject.org/events or follow us at facebook.com/nolumbekaproject for additional information
Videos from the 2025 Pocumtuck Homelands Festival
Thank you to Montague Community TV for the beautiful recordings of these memorable presentations where indigenous people share their own stories in many inspiring, informative, meaningful, powerful, creative ways. (Please note: our emcee is Justin Beatty, not James.)
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