The Indigenous Artways Podcast presents "Making cornhusk Dolls".  In This 3 part series, you will learn about what materials are needed to make a traditional cornhusk doll, techniques to make your doll and also the history of the dolls.  The lessons are led by Artist educator, Loren Spears.

Episode 2 focuses on techniques you can use to manage the pieces of cornhusks, making the head of your Doll, and even adding a personality to your dolls.

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The Indigenous Artways Podcast presents "Making cornhusk Dolls". In This 3 part series, you will learn about what materials are needed to make a traditonal cornhusk doll, techneques to make your doll and also the history of the dolls. The lessons are led by Artist educator, Loren Spears.

Episode 1  focuses on the history of Cornhusk Dolls. You will learn what materials to gather to make your doll.

Tomaquag Museum is always available for cultural classes. Please see our website for details about our programs, or call us to schedule a workshop! 

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Tomaquag museum and the Cocumscussoc Association partnered to present “Heritage days” a two day educational event demonstrating native american and colonial cultures. The location for this event was the historic Smith’s Castle located in North Kingstown Rhode Island.

This was a good opportunity to demonstrate  the mission of Tomaquag Museum, which is  to educate the public and promote thoughtful dialogue regarding Indigenous history, culture, arts.  

The Cocumscussoc Association mission is to focus on teaching people the history of Rhode Island's development through three eras: Native American days, early colonial days, and the plantation era.

This episode of Indigenous Artways is an overview of this two day event…

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This episode of Indigenous Artways features Lorén Spears, executive director of Tomaquag Museum, and intern Lynsea Montinari, discuss the significance of the 13 thanksgiving celebrations of Indigenous people.  The discussion includes examples of traditional song and dance.

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In this episode of Indigenous Artways, we feature a performance of poetry and Art by Robert Peters. Shot on location at the historic Smith's Castle in Rhode Island, Robert presents some of his poetry and shares some of his artwork.

Artist Bio (From Website):

Robert Peters is a Mashpee Wampanoag artist, writer, poet and the artist/author.In 2007 Robert decided to create a 2015 calendar called "Thirteen Moons. (available now) He has painted it on twelve acrylic canvases for the project.

Accompanying the Calendar is poetry, essays and thoughts - written by Robert over a span of twenty years entitled, "A Meditation on Indigenous Life. Robert created "Thirteen Moons" and "A Meditation on Indigenous Life" to be shared  throughout the 2015 calendar year.

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In this episode of the indigenous Artways podcast, we present “Eastern Indigenous Kitchen, a demonstration of some of the things that would have been found in a very early eastern woodland indigenous cooking encampment. This presented by Cassius Spears of the Narragansett nation.

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The Indigenous Artways Podcats presents: "Tomaquag Museum's first Basket" which is the story of how Princess Redwing, a Narragansett/Wampanoag woman who helped create the Tomaquag Museum,  obtained a very old eastern woodland basket.   The story is told by Paulla Dove Jennings, Narragansett Elder and  curator of Tomaquag Museum's collections. She is a  nationally renowned author and storyteller. 

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In this episode of Indigenous Artways, we shine a Native Artist spotlight on Emily Manning, a fingerweave artist who is Narragansett/Niantic. 

Emily shares her love of fingerweaving, where she learned this art, and some of her techneques as an artist.

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Your tax-deductible gift supports programing like this podcast, or can help us to host more educational event like our heritage days at Smith's castle, where colonial and indigenous living is demonstrated.

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It has recently come to our attention that part 2 of “Stories and Song” was incomplete.  The story being presented by Thawn Harris was cut off and it’s ending was not heard.   Rather than reposting episode 2 a second time, we are releasing a part 3.  What you are about to watch is the rest of Thawns story, which is called, “Why turtles do not fly south".  We thank you very much for continuing to follow our podcast! We will have MANY more great episodes to come!

As a reminder, the indigenous artways podcats releases episodes generally every Sunday or Monday. 

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Help us preserve Narragansett and New England indigenous histories & culture!

Please consider Donating to Tomaquag Museum! Help us share tradition and culture in a way that is proactive, interactive, and fun!  Your donation Helps inspire children to learn another aspect of American history, through the knowledge and experiences of Indigenous educators!

Your tax-deductible gift supports programing like this podcast, or can help us to host more educational event like our heritage days at Smith's castle, where colonial and indigenous living is demonstrated.

Please visit http://www.tomaquagmuseum.org/donate to learn how you can contribute to our ever growing programs! 

The indigenous Artways Podcast  presents “Stories and songs”. This  two part  series features the indigenous talent of two Flute players, and two story tellers. These episodes were shot on the historic Smith’s Castle property in Rhode Island during the educational event called “Heritage Days”,which showcased both Indigenous and colonial living, as well as demonstrations from those eras. 

Part Two features  Delos Tate, a young Narragansett man opening with a soft moving flute piece and and Thawn Harris, Narragansett artist and storyteller who introduces us to the story of why turtles do not fly south for the winter.

Tomaquag Museum thanks the Cocumscussoc Association for its partnership with us for Heritage Days.  For more information about Smith’s Castle, please see their website at: www.smithscastle.org

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