Pocumtuck Homelands Festival

An all day celebration of Native American culture and history will include live music, drumming, dancing, storytelling, traditional children's games, children's crafts ($2 materials fee), educational talks, primitive skills demonstrations, and a wide array of vendors of Native American arts and crafts. Music this year will feature Theresa "Bear" Fox, Mohawk (Wolf Clan), and Kontiwennenhawi, the Akwasasne Women Singers. She is a three-time Native American Music Awards (NAMMY) winner: Best Debut Artist, 2014; Best Traditional (with Kontiwennahawi, The Akwasasne Women Singers), 2015; Songwriter of the Year, 2016 . Other performers we will present this year are the popular Medicine Mammals Singers (who also bring tipis, storytelling and children's games) and "Wave Artist" Mixashawn who will perform a musical blend of traditional and contemporary Indigenous music as well as jazz. The Abenaki group Black Hawk Singers, who celebrate their tribal spirit through traditional and new songs, and, for the second year, the popular Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition Singers will set up their powwow drums under the trees along the banks of the river. Co-sponsored by Nolumbeka Project, Turners Falls RiverCulture and Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition.