Youth Cultural Enrichment Program

The Program, named in honor of the late Slow Turtle who was the Supreme Medicine Man of the Wampanoag Nation, offers cultural enrichment activities and gatherings for children and youth. Projects and activities are held throughout the year and are open to all children and youth, Native and non-Native, often concurrent with our pow-wows.

Activities include listening to Indigenous storytelling; engaging in projects on regalia making, hand drum construction, traditional beading and hand weaving. Each activity includes learning tribal history and accurate cultural information related to the project.  These activities help our youth validate their Indigenous identity or build an identity as an Indigenous ally with authentic, truthful information, gain a sense of empowerment, and affirm self-worth in a dominant culture which devalues so much that is Native American in origin and contributions.

For over three decades, these quality traditional activities have been held at locations around the Commonwealth (in doors, on a pond, and in open fields or fairgrounds) where the areas are transformed into vibrant sites of Native American learning & engagement that connect us all symbolically to the earth, the water, and to our history.