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The UMass Amherst Libraries and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts will host “Wampanoag History: Fiction or Nonfiction?,” a book discussion with Linda Coombs, on Monday, Nov. 25 from 5-7 p.m. at the Integrated Learning Center, Room S240.
Coombs, an author and historian from the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah, lives in the Wampanoag community of Mashpee on Cape Cod. She will discuss her book, “Colonization and the Wampanoag Story,” and present the New England Indigenous Nations’ perspective on existing stories about the Wampanoag and colonization.
Coombs began her museum career in an internship at the Boston Children’s Museum, and later working in its Native American Program. She and her Narragansett colleague Paulla Dove Jennings wrote children’s books for a museum series highlighting aspects of southern New England tribal cultures.
Coombs also worked for 30 years in the Wampanoag Indigenous Program (WIP) of Plimoth Plantation, including 15 years as WIP’s associate director, and nine years at the Aquinnah Cultural Center.
Registration is free and open to the public, and the event will also be available via Zoom and livestreamed on YouTube for those unable to attend in-person. Only those attending in-person and via Zoom will be able to participate in the Q&A portion of the event.
For more information, contact Brandon Castle, Native American and Indigenous studies librarian, at [email protected].
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