"The Language Belongs to the Land Itself"
Full Snow Moon Gathering Features Interactive Presentation by David Tall Pine White on the Nipmuc Presence and Persistence in Southern New England
Saturday, February 21, 1-3 PM,
Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MA
Doors open at 12:30
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| David Tall Pine White |
David
Tall Pine White, Tribal Council Vice-President of the Chaubunagungamaug
Band of Nipmuck Indians and a language consultant and actor in the 2009
PBS series "We Shall Remain", offers a two hour interactive presentation
"The Language Belongs to the Land Itself" on the Nipmuck Presence and
Persistence in Southern New England at the Full Snow Moon Gathering,
Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MA, Saturday,
February 21, 1-3 PM.
A community activist and teacher of Nipmuc language, history and
culture, White states "There's a lot of wisdom and knowledge in Our
language. Based on the observations of nature over thousands of years,
it shows how our surroundings are alive and an important part of life
itself. It teaches an appreciation and purpose of each living thing."
The Full Snow Moon
is the name given by the tribes of the Northeast to the full moon of
February, a month when heavy snows are common. It was also known as the
Hungry Moon by some tribes because of the harshness of the weather and
lack of game. The Full Snow Moon Gathering on February 21 joins the
Great Falls Massacre Commemoration, Pocumtuck Homelands Festival and
Beaver Moon Gathering in a series of cultural events celebrating Native
American history and culture to be presented in Turners Falls during
2015.
The event, co-sponsored by Nolumbeka Project and the
Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, is free and
open to the public. Doors open at 12:30. Reasonable accommodations are
available upon request. Light refreshments will be provided.
VIDEO INTERVIEW ON FIRST CONTACT
Thanks to Roberto Mighty, MFA, for the use of this video, produced as part of
First Contact, an immersive digital multimedia art exhibit about the roles of
Christianity, Indigenous Spirituality, and land use in 17th century
central Massachusetts.
Roberto received his Master of Fine Arts in the Visual Arts from Lesley
University and his BA in History from Boston University; and is
currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts
at Emerson College, and a lecturer in narrative cinematography,
documentary filmmaking and digital editing at Boston University’s Center
for Digital Imaging Arts.
An immersive digital multimedia art exhibit about the roles of Christianity,
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