Speakers and Presenters
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Below you will see the names of individuals who offer workshops, speaking engagements, and cultural presentations. For those who have more details to share or a personal web site, please click on the pink, rectangular button that says “Click Here to Read More About …….” and you will be brought to their page.
Once you identify the person who presents the type of program you’re looking for, please contact them directly at the number listed on their page. At that time, you can discuss their availability and rates/honorarium. When you speak with them, please let them know that you found their name and information on the website of the Mass. Center for Native American Awareness.
This list will be updated as the year goes on so keep checking back for the names of additional speakers and presenters.
Claudia A. Fox Tree, Ph.D.
Speaker and Workshop Presenter
Dr. Claudia A. Fox Tree (she/ her/ hers) is a multiracial/ multicultural professional educator and social justice activist who facilitates courses and workshops on diversity, equity, and social justice. Claudia focuses on being an ally and co-conspirator in dismantling stereotypes and historical inaccuracies so that Indigenous peoples in what is now known as North and South America can be visible on their own land. Claudia decolonizes equity conversations by highlighting implicit bias and centering Indigenous history, culture, resistance, and contributions.
Larry Spotted Crow Mann
Award-winning Writer, Poet, Native American Cultural Educator, Traditional Story Teller, Tribal Drummer/Dancer, and Motivational Speaker
Larry Spotted Crow Mann is a citizen of the Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts. He is an award winning writer, poet, cultural educator, Traditional Story Teller, tribal drummer/dancer and motivational speaker involving youth sobriety, cultural and environmental awareness. Mann is also a board member of the Nipmuk Cultural Preservation, which is an organization set up to promote the cultural, social and spiritual needs of Nipmuc people as well an educational resource of Native American studies.
Annawon Weeden
Consultant, Presenter, Performing Artist
Born & raised on the Narragansett Tribal reservation in Charlestown Rhode Island, Annawon eventually made his home in his mother’s Wampanoag community located in Mashpee, MA. Following in his father “Tall Oak”'s footsteps, Annawon began sharing the culture of his tribes with his family during public programs and performances at a very young age. As an adult, Annawon's passion for preserving the culture has been clear throughout decades spent working at Plimoth Plantation (Museum Interpreter/Outreach Educator) and Boston Children’s Museum. Currently self-employed, Annawon dedicates much of his time visiting schools, colleges, museums, libraries, birthdays, corporations and more, as he continues his efforts to correct misinformation and misrepresentation of indigenous people.
Patricia “Chali’inaru” Dones
E-mail: chaliinaru@gmail.com
Chali’inaru is Boriken Taino, a member of Iukaieke Guaina. She is also the Liaison of The United Confederation of Taino People. She and her son, who live in Newton, MA, do exhibition dances including the Taino Owl Dance. She also speaks on Taino Culture.
Photo credit: Rob Adelman
Sebastian Ellington Flying Eagle Ebarb (He/Him)
E-mail: sebastian.ebarb@gmail.com
Telephone: 917-379-0209
As a member of the Choctaw-Apache tribe of Ebarb, he has spent his years working to revive, hold and revere his native heritage. He speaks on Native American design and aesthetics, Native crafts today, Racism and mascots/cultural appropriation, Land back movement, Native Americans in digital spaces, State recognition of tribes, and Reconnecting with heritage.
He is the founder and owner of Nahi. As a digital and print designer, he has spent his career working to push past conventional thinking. He is a Professor of Design at Northeastern University and co-owner of the design studio Nahi (meaning “we” in Apache).
Sebastian resides in Boston.
Jus Crea Giammarino, N.D.
Naturopathic Physician, Ethnobotanist and Traditional Birthworker.
E-mail: creatree@aol.com
Telephone: 413-783-1932
Website: https://www.nativerootmedicine.com/native-root-public-speaking/
Jus Crea Giammarino is a Penobscot mother, naturopathic physician, ethnobotanist and traditional birthworker. She also works to educate in various speaking engagements including leading medicine walks and medicine making workshops. She is a founding board member of bomazeen land trust and enjoys speaking about ancestral connections to land, relationships particularly with food medicine and health. She resides in Springfield, MA with her family.
Brad Lopes
Speaker and Workshop Presenter
E-mail: mrlopesedu@gmail.com
Brad Lopes is an Aquinnah Wampanoag citizen, educator, and historian with a background in Secondary Education who resides on Nôepe (Martha's Vineyard). He serves as the Education Director for his Tribe, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), as well as the Education and Public Programs Manager for the Aquinnah Cultural Center, housed in the historic Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead. Outside of these roles, he also sits on the boards of the Indigenous Resource Collaborative, founded by Linda Coombs, and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Inc.
Brad began his career teaching social studies to 9th-12th grade students in Wabanaki Homelands (Maine) and since then has sought ways to decolonize curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. Upon returning to Wampanoag Homelands, he worked at Plimoth Patuxet Museums, guiding the interpretation on the Wampanoag Homesite before leaving the museum to join the Education Department for his sister community, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Brad served as the Native American Teacher Retention Initiative Program Manager, where he supported local, Native educators and youth interested in teaching as a career.
Brad specializes in classroom presentations, teacher professional development, and curriculum consultation and coaching, with the goal of providing accurate Wampanoag history, cultural knowledge, contemporary lived experiences, and futures to students, staff, and community members.
Angela C. Marcellino
Author of the True Natives of Cape Cod Massachusetts and Their Foodways /Recipes with Stories of Food, History , Culture and Identity
E-mail: angelacmarcellino@yahoo.com
Telephone: 508-681-9227
Website: https://angelacmarcellino.com/public-speaking/
Presentation for School Systems (Grades 4 to 8) - Pre- contact Wampanoag people lifeways, Religion, Family systems, Land and Agricultural management, Diet, Hunting and gathering lifeways, What foods were introduced to Region by the Europeans?, What did the Wampanoags share with the Pilgrim Colony?, What did they really eat at Thanksgiving?
Lives on the NH/MA border. Will travel to Greater Boston, North Shore, Central MA.
(Mr.) Chee Nul Ka Pocknett
E-mail: cheenulka@icloud.com
Chee Nul Ka, a Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal citizen, offers curriculum development, speaking/lectures, storytelling, arts & crafts and cooking demos.
He also coordinates the Red Hawk Singers & Dancers with over 75 dancers and singers from across North America. The Red Hawk Singers and Dancers provide a variety of formats to share the ways of the Wampanoag people. Each presentation is an educational program that includes song, dance and teachings about the virtues of humility, respect, identity and self-care.
Barbara Giammarino
E-mail: creatree@aol.com
Telephone: 413-783-1932
Barbara is a Penobscot grandmother and a lifelong passionate storyteller for all ages. She is also a hoop dancer and has been educating in schools and various organizations for decades. Barbara lives in Western MA.