Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historical accounts suggest that the garment hung down several feet from his shoulders, interwoven with designs that represented ...

The celebrations surrounding the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing in Massachusetts, brought with them a challenge for Paula Peters. "For so long, the story of the Wampanoag has been really ...

Co-curator Jo Loosemore examines a recently created wampum belt made by members of the Wampanoag Native America people, after its unpacking and prior to it going on display in Southampton, England, ...

BEAUTIFUL PLACE FOR ANY FAMILY REUNION, THERE IS SOMETHING PARTICULARLY POIGNANT ABOUT THE THREE GENERATIONS OF WIDDISS FAMILY ARTISTS REUNITED HERE IN AN EXHIBIT AT THE MARTHA’S VINEYARD MUSEUM ...

As a young girl, Elizabeth James-Perry often sat at her family's kitchen table watching her mother Patricia James-Perry scrimshaw on whale bone or ivory — a culturally significant tradition passed ...

Members of Wampanoag nation central to year focused on anniversary of colonists’ journey from Plymouth in 1620 Native Americans whose ancestors suffered at the hands of 17th-century European settlers ...

A wampum belt made by the Wampanoag community will tour the UK to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage. (SmokeSygnals ) Four hundred years ago, and after a few failed attempts to cross ...

In three days, the opening episode of the long-awaited new PBS special “We Shall Remain” will be nationally broadcast. As described more fully on March 27, this will be a five-part American Experience ...

Last year, visitors to the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum might have noticed something odd about a 1971 mural of the early history between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. Didn’t all ...

As Americans sit down to a table full of food this Thanksgiving Day, many may retell a story they learned in elementary school, about the Pilgrims who befriended the local Indians after the Mayflower ...

SOUTHAMPTON, EnglandSOUTHAMPTON, England — Four hundred years after English colonists landed on Plymouth Rock and upended the lives of her ancestors, Paula Peters is on a quest to recover a small part ...