Paula Peters — The True Cost of Colonization: American History from an Indigenous Perspective — Baxter Lecture

Join the Boston Public Library in partnership with American Ancestors/NEHGS and the GBH Forum Network for this online program where Paula Peters will discuss the romanticized myth of the Pilgrims' arrival and the true cost of colonization from the perspective of the indigenous people. By exploring the history of contact prior to 1620 we can begin to understand the decisions that were made upon their arrival off the coast of Cape Cod and the transition from the village of Patuxet to the Plimoth colony. Boston Public Library President David Leonard will moderate this talk, which is sponsored by the Baxter Fund and is part of the BPL's Repairing America Series.

People who are interested in attending are kindly asked to check the Event website for forthcoming information, including registration instructions.

Paula Peters is the founder of the Native American creative agency SmokeSygnals (https://www.capecodmarketing.biz/); an independent scholar; and a politically, socially, and culturally active member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. As an independent scholar and writer of Native, and particularly Wampanoag history, she is a producer of the traveling exhibit "Our" Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History and is currently engaged in the Wampum Belt Project in search of the lost treasures of Metacom, including an effort to restore the art and tradition of wampum making among her people. She is the executive producer of the 2016 documentary film Mashpee Nine and author of the companion book. She lives with her extended family in Mashpee and travels internationally to speak and educate on the true Wampanoag story. A graduate of Bridgewater State College she was formerly a writer at the Cape Cod Times where she won numerous national awards for her journalism.

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