Saturday, October 11, 2025,
Newburyport, Massachusetts
Waterfront Park, 10 AM – 5 PM
Sponsorship deadline is August 15, 2025.
Donations Gratefully Accepted
Join us for Newburyport’s 5th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Observance to celebrate traditional and contemporary Indigenous cultural arts, knowledge and diversity, honoring our region’s Indigenous communities and all Native Peoples, and supports recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day at the city, state and national level. We welcome community participation to support this event, including Indigenous and allied partners, sponsors, volunteers, educators, students, and others to join us!
Canoe Makers and Event Activities
This year’s event highlights Indigenous maritime cultural arts traditions in the Dawnland, including the creation, ceremonial launch and paddle on the Merrimack River of a traditional hand crafted muhsh8n (mishoon dugout canoe) made by Darius Coombs and Jonathan James Perry. Imagine Studios is honored and pleased to be a 2025 grant recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts “Public Art for Spatial Justice” initiative for “The Merrimack Mishoon Project!” Stay tuned for public muhsh8n making events throughout September at the Custom House Museum and the inaugural launch and paddle of the Merrimack Mishoon, Saturday, October 11th at Waterfront Park.
Indigenous Presenters, Musicans and Artisans
This year’s Indigenous cultural presenters, musicians and artisans include: Lonecry Singers; Hawk Henries; Jonathan Perry; Darius and Toodie Coombs; Roger Paul; Nicholas Paul, Pauochau Nohkunnawai Waupi, and family drum/dance/song; Larry Spotted Crow Mann; Jason Pardilla; Chickie Red Dawn Dobson; Sarah Small Turtle; Daniela Currie-Gutierrez; Thea Hopkins; Jenny Tibbits; Lonewolf Studio; Joseph Gray Sculpture and others.
Support Newburyport’s 5th Annual Indigenous People’s Day:
Fundraising Dinner and Merrimack Mishoon making celebration with Wampanoag (James Beard Award Winner) celebrity Chef Sherry Pocknett, Darius Coombs, Jonathan Perry and friends on Saturday, October 4th at The Custom House Maritime Museum!
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Nicholas Paul, Pauochau Nohkunnawai Waupi and family
Nicholas Paul (Passamaquoddy from Motahmikuk, Indian Township, Maine and Wolastoqiyik, Maliseet, From Tobique First Nations in New Brunswick Canada), and Pauochau Nohkunnawai Waupi, “She who dances on night winds,” Narrangansett From Rhode Island and Peqout from Connecticut- joined by their children, Sipsis (lil bird) 19, Hiawatha (Keeper of the forest) 18, and Tihtiyas (Blue Jay) 8, and granddaughter Mauseck Wequai (Great Light) 1.
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(978) 834-0367 / kristine@imaginestudios.org
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