Programs and Services We Offer
All principal owners of AEI are highly skilled museum educators and provide a unique perspective to educational support services. As museum educators, AEI has experience with students of all grade levels and participants of all skill levels. Because of these collective years of experience working with a wide variety of audiences, flexibility is one of the strengths of our company. In addition, educational support services and educational programming offered by AEI are fluid in presentation, interactive and discussion driven. AEI’s role in achieving social change as part of its mission means creating thought-provoking and innovative learning methods meant for a wide variety of audiences.
Outreach Programming
Treaty of Hartford Activity
A Musical Tour of Native America
Native Traditional Stories in Modern Literature
Native American Cultures in Dance & Song
Quinektikut: The Land & People
Indigenous Women & Matrilineality in the Age of American Patriarchy
Understanding Cultural Appropriation
Resilience & Contemporary Native Communities in the Northeast
Quinektikut Blanket Exercise
Maritime Labor, Whaling Ships & International Indians
A Musical Tour of Native America
Native Traditional Stories in Modern Literature
Native American Cultures in Dance & Song
Quinektikut: The Land & People
Indigenous Women & Matrilineality in the Age of American Patriarchy
Understanding Cultural Appropriation
Resilience & Contemporary Native Communities in the Northeast
Quinektikut Blanket Exercise
Maritime Labor, Whaling Ships & International Indians
Guided Tours
Lessons in Radical Feminism From the Fourteenth Century
Illegal Immigration: The View From the Land
Confronting Colonization
Illegal Immigration: The View From the Land
Confronting Colonization
Professional Development
Teaching About Native People in the Americas
Interpreting Native American Collections
Working Effectively with Native American People and Communities
How We Speak About Ninnimissinouk : Indigenous Terminology in the Classroom
Interpreting Native American Collections
Working Effectively with Native American People and Communities
How We Speak About Ninnimissinouk : Indigenous Terminology in the Classroom
Consulting Services
Treaty of Hartford Activity
The Treaty of Hartford of 1638, one of the earliest formal agreements between Native peoples and settler colonists in North America, is a much overlooked primary document from early American and Connecticut history. This document established English control of southeast Connecticut following the Pequot War and in its language passes the control of power and governance in the region from indigenous to English colonial rule. In some ways, it is a founding document of “New England”. The Treaty of Hartford Activity engages this document critically. Learning goals for this program include working with primary documents, the use of language and critical thinking of one of the most influential turns in Connecticut history.
$300 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 students
Program length: 1 hour
Grade 8-12, College, Professional Development for Teachers
The Treaty of Hartford of 1638, one of the earliest formal agreements between Native peoples and settler colonists in North America, is a much overlooked primary document from early American and Connecticut history. This document established English control of southeast Connecticut following the Pequot War and in its language passes the control of power and governance in the region from indigenous to English colonial rule. In some ways, it is a founding document of “New England”. The Treaty of Hartford Activity engages this document critically. Learning goals for this program include working with primary documents, the use of language and critical thinking of one of the most influential turns in Connecticut history.
$300 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 students
Program length: 1 hour
Grade 8-12, College, Professional Development for Teachers
A Musical Tour of Native America
While it is impossible to cover the breadth of musical styles and traditions for all Native peoples in one program, this program offers a sampling Native musics from different regions through the life experiences of the presenter. Educator Chris Newell will provide his life story surrounding music starting with the Passamaquoddy music he learned in his home community as a child. Stories and musical characteristics become center stage to the music that is presented as part of an entertaining and educational performance. Through the presentation Chris will provide live samples of Native musics from different regions, break down rhythm and song styles of non-ceremonial music in a way that is translatable to musicians and non-musicians alike. Song styles include different styles of Northeastern Woodland music, northern and southern plains style pow wow music and the round dance traditions in different parts of the country from Alberta, Canada down to New Mexico. We cater this program to be performed for audiences from young children to serious students of music and it’s a perfect addition to any World Music class.
$300 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 students
Program length: 1 hour
Grades K-12, College
While it is impossible to cover the breadth of musical styles and traditions for all Native peoples in one program, this program offers a sampling Native musics from different regions through the life experiences of the presenter. Educator Chris Newell will provide his life story surrounding music starting with the Passamaquoddy music he learned in his home community as a child. Stories and musical characteristics become center stage to the music that is presented as part of an entertaining and educational performance. Through the presentation Chris will provide live samples of Native musics from different regions, break down rhythm and song styles of non-ceremonial music in a way that is translatable to musicians and non-musicians alike. Song styles include different styles of Northeastern Woodland music, northern and southern plains style pow wow music and the round dance traditions in different parts of the country from Alberta, Canada down to New Mexico. We cater this program to be performed for audiences from young children to serious students of music and it’s a perfect addition to any World Music class.
$300 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 students
Program length: 1 hour
Grades K-12, College
Native Traditional Stories in Modern Literature
This program is a presentation of children’s literature all produced in the Motahkmikuhk community (Indian Township) in Maine. Traditional stories are presented in a non-traditional format of Native-sourced literature as a way to introduce younger students to the history and culture of the Passamaquoddy peoples in Maine. The presenter will talk about the authors, where these stories came from, what purpose do they serve and how the lesson are used in everyday life. The presentation will also include a non-fiction children’s book about one of the Passamaquoddy people’s most famous artists, Tomah Joseph, and his relationship to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By presenting traditional stories in this format and with the use of non-fiction, students are presented a history produced from an indigenous perspective. By using recently authored books, we re-enforce the presence of Native peoples in modern day America.
$300 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 students
Program length: 1 hour
Grades K-5
This program is a presentation of children’s literature all produced in the Motahkmikuhk community (Indian Township) in Maine. Traditional stories are presented in a non-traditional format of Native-sourced literature as a way to introduce younger students to the history and culture of the Passamaquoddy peoples in Maine. The presenter will talk about the authors, where these stories came from, what purpose do they serve and how the lesson are used in everyday life. The presentation will also include a non-fiction children’s book about one of the Passamaquoddy people’s most famous artists, Tomah Joseph, and his relationship to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By presenting traditional stories in this format and with the use of non-fiction, students are presented a history produced from an indigenous perspective. By using recently authored books, we re-enforce the presence of Native peoples in modern day America.
$300 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 students
Program length: 1 hour
Grades K-5
Native American Cultures in Dance & Song
Powwow musician and professional MC Chris Newell will lead a one hour educational demonstration of Powwow dance and song. Men, women, and children dancers will wear full regalia and demonstrate different styles of contemporary dance. At the end, the audience is invited to join the dancers for a round dance! Participants will gain an understanding of traditional materials used for regalia; how our cultures change and our communities innovate over time, and the importance of cultural expression for living Native People.
$300 per program group + $300 per dancer + mileage
Program group max: 100 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades K-12, College, Adult
Powwow musician and professional MC Chris Newell will lead a one hour educational demonstration of Powwow dance and song. Men, women, and children dancers will wear full regalia and demonstrate different styles of contemporary dance. At the end, the audience is invited to join the dancers for a round dance! Participants will gain an understanding of traditional materials used for regalia; how our cultures change and our communities innovate over time, and the importance of cultural expression for living Native People.
$300 per program group + $300 per dancer + mileage
Program group max: 100 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades K-12, College, Adult
Quinektikut: The Land & People
Dr. Jason Mancini will lead a 90 minute presentation and discussion about southern New England; homeland to Native People for the last 10,000 years. Participants will learn how the land and Native people have an intertwined and inextricable relationship from time immemorial, through the colonial period, the changes in southern New England in the 20th century and today. Dr. Mancini will be accompanied by his co-founders of the Akomawt Educational Initiative, Chris Newell and endawnis Spears for a question and answer portion.
$600 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 100 participants
Program length: 1.5 hours
Grade 8-12, College, Professional Development for Teachers
Dr. Jason Mancini will lead a 90 minute presentation and discussion about southern New England; homeland to Native People for the last 10,000 years. Participants will learn how the land and Native people have an intertwined and inextricable relationship from time immemorial, through the colonial period, the changes in southern New England in the 20th century and today. Dr. Mancini will be accompanied by his co-founders of the Akomawt Educational Initiative, Chris Newell and endawnis Spears for a question and answer portion.
$600 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 100 participants
Program length: 1.5 hours
Grade 8-12, College, Professional Development for Teachers
Indigenous Women & Matrilineality in the Age of American Patriarchy
What happens in a society when lineage is determined through women? Power, cosmology, lifeways, and relationships to the earth are oriented differently. For thousands of years, many North American Indigenous People have lived as part of matrilineal societies. Colonialism's dispossession of Indigenous land and Indigenous bodies includes the disruption of traditional social systems that give political and cultural agency to all people. endawnis Spears will explore gender and colonialism through the lens of living matrilineal systems and discuss the resilience of Native communities by enacting their traditional social kinship.
$300 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 students
Program length: 1 hour
Grade 8-12, College, Professional Development for Teachers
What happens in a society when lineage is determined through women? Power, cosmology, lifeways, and relationships to the earth are oriented differently. For thousands of years, many North American Indigenous People have lived as part of matrilineal societies. Colonialism's dispossession of Indigenous land and Indigenous bodies includes the disruption of traditional social systems that give political and cultural agency to all people. endawnis Spears will explore gender and colonialism through the lens of living matrilineal systems and discuss the resilience of Native communities by enacting their traditional social kinship.
$300 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 students
Program length: 1 hour
Grade 8-12, College, Professional Development for Teachers
Understanding Cultural Appropriation
In this one hour program Akomawt educators will lead a presentation about culturally appropriative practices in American culture and utilize examples to highlight how stereotypes are destructive for Indigenous people and counterproductive for broader community making. Iconography such as dreamcatchers, mascotry and paper headdresses at Thanksgiving time will be given a cultural and historical context. Approaches of engaging with Native material culture in respectful and meaningful practices will be explored and discussed.
$500 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 50 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Professional Development for Teachers, Museum Professionals
In this one hour program Akomawt educators will lead a presentation about culturally appropriative practices in American culture and utilize examples to highlight how stereotypes are destructive for Indigenous people and counterproductive for broader community making. Iconography such as dreamcatchers, mascotry and paper headdresses at Thanksgiving time will be given a cultural and historical context. Approaches of engaging with Native material culture in respectful and meaningful practices will be explored and discussed.
$500 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 50 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Professional Development for Teachers, Museum Professionals
Resilience & Contemporary Native Communities in the Northeast
Indigenous people and communities do not disappear after the American colonial period. Cultures and lifeways are maintained, passed down, adapted and are vital for each generation now until forever. This interactive program focusing on social studies, is an insight into the lived cultures that exist in families and communities in the Native Northeast today. The concepts of survivance and resilience and the social movements of Indigenous people across North America are defined and contextualized. Music, food sovereignty, language revitalization and traditional kinship ties are lenses through which students work to understand how Native people consciously enact resilience in this place and now. This one-hour interactive program includes pictures, video, music and hands on objects.
$500 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 50 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 3-12, College
Indigenous people and communities do not disappear after the American colonial period. Cultures and lifeways are maintained, passed down, adapted and are vital for each generation now until forever. This interactive program focusing on social studies, is an insight into the lived cultures that exist in families and communities in the Native Northeast today. The concepts of survivance and resilience and the social movements of Indigenous people across North America are defined and contextualized. Music, food sovereignty, language revitalization and traditional kinship ties are lenses through which students work to understand how Native people consciously enact resilience in this place and now. This one-hour interactive program includes pictures, video, music and hands on objects.
$500 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 50 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 3-12, College
Quinektikut Blanket Exercise
The Blanket Exercise is an experiential teaching tool developed by KAIROS, a Canadian, ecumenical, social justice organization. This southern New England version is based on the original Canadian script that came out of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and has been adapted by the Akomawt Educational Initiative for southern New England. This interactive and experiential learning activity guides participants through themes of land dispossession, culturally genocidal policies and the effects of colonialism through culturally grounded and respectful methods. This life changing program is appropriate for advanced middle school students and can be tailored for college and university classes and professional development for teachers of all grade levels.
$500 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 50 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grade 8-12, College, Professional Development for Teachers
The Blanket Exercise is an experiential teaching tool developed by KAIROS, a Canadian, ecumenical, social justice organization. This southern New England version is based on the original Canadian script that came out of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and has been adapted by the Akomawt Educational Initiative for southern New England. This interactive and experiential learning activity guides participants through themes of land dispossession, culturally genocidal policies and the effects of colonialism through culturally grounded and respectful methods. This life changing program is appropriate for advanced middle school students and can be tailored for college and university classes and professional development for teachers of all grade levels.
$500 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 50 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grade 8-12, College, Professional Development for Teachers
Maritime Labor, Whaling Ships & International Indians
Over nine million acres of Indian Country in southern New England and Long Island was reduced to less than 30,000 acres by the American Revolution. Indians across the region adjusted in different ways to this rapidly changing world. One important and largely unseen shift involved the participation of Indian men in various forms of maritime labor - from shipbuilding to whaling. This presentation focuses on the hundreds of Indians that found work in the ports of Mystic, Stonington, New London, Sag Harbor, and New Bedford and explores their “roots” and “routes,” the global social networks they formed, and their traveling histories from the objects they collected and stories they told. Dr. Mancini will present whaleship routes mapped on Google Earth, details from explorations in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Alaska, as well as his own experiences on the “mighty waters.”
$500 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 8-12, College
Over nine million acres of Indian Country in southern New England and Long Island was reduced to less than 30,000 acres by the American Revolution. Indians across the region adjusted in different ways to this rapidly changing world. One important and largely unseen shift involved the participation of Indian men in various forms of maritime labor - from shipbuilding to whaling. This presentation focuses on the hundreds of Indians that found work in the ports of Mystic, Stonington, New London, Sag Harbor, and New Bedford and explores their “roots” and “routes,” the global social networks they formed, and their traveling histories from the objects they collected and stories they told. Dr. Mancini will present whaleship routes mapped on Google Earth, details from explorations in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Alaska, as well as his own experiences on the “mighty waters.”
$500 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 8-12, College
Lessons in Radical Feminism From the Fourteenth Century
Guided Tour at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Join us at the renown and largest tribally owned and operated museum in the world, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center for a guided tour of what American culture calls “radical feminism”, and what we term “functioning and sustainable societies”. Over the course of tens of thousands of years, Indigenous women in the Native northeast and beyond functioned as key political, economic, and cultural determinants in their communities and confederacies. Let’s walk through time together in these immersive exhibits and discuss radical ideas of gender, land ownership, lineage and political leadership from the 1500s.
$25 per adult/ $20 per student includes admission to the museum and guided tour
Program group minimum: 25 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 8-12, College, Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Guided Tour at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Join us at the renown and largest tribally owned and operated museum in the world, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center for a guided tour of what American culture calls “radical feminism”, and what we term “functioning and sustainable societies”. Over the course of tens of thousands of years, Indigenous women in the Native northeast and beyond functioned as key political, economic, and cultural determinants in their communities and confederacies. Let’s walk through time together in these immersive exhibits and discuss radical ideas of gender, land ownership, lineage and political leadership from the 1500s.
$25 per adult/ $20 per student includes admission to the museum and guided tour
Program group minimum: 25 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 8-12, College, Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Illegal Immigration: The View From the Land
Guided Tour at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
A deeper and accurate look at the history of human populations moving across Turtle Island refocuses the discussion of immigration, nationality, citizenship and legitimacy. Join us at the renown and largest tribally owned and operated museum in the world, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center for a guided tour focusing on immigration from the perspective of the view from the land, versus the view from the boat (a concept articulated by the Upstander Project). As we walk through an immersive Native Northeastern timeline, we discuss how concepts of society-making, governance and coexistence make sustainable and political models that preclude the concepts of child/family separation, detention, and deportation.
$25 per adult/ $20 per student includes admission to the museum and guided tour
Program group minimum: 25 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 8-12, College, Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Guided Tour at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
A deeper and accurate look at the history of human populations moving across Turtle Island refocuses the discussion of immigration, nationality, citizenship and legitimacy. Join us at the renown and largest tribally owned and operated museum in the world, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center for a guided tour focusing on immigration from the perspective of the view from the land, versus the view from the boat (a concept articulated by the Upstander Project). As we walk through an immersive Native Northeastern timeline, we discuss how concepts of society-making, governance and coexistence make sustainable and political models that preclude the concepts of child/family separation, detention, and deportation.
$25 per adult/ $20 per student includes admission to the museum and guided tour
Program group minimum: 25 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 8-12, College, Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Confronting Colonization
Guided Tour at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
The past three and a half centuries brought about immense shifts in the cultural landscape of southern New England. The Native people whose homeland is the site of these shifts, experienced these dynamics in distinct ways. In this guided tour of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, the world’s largest Native American owned and operated museum, participants will walk through this time period and learn about dispossession, changing relationships to land, citizenship, servitude and enslavement, Christianity, market economies, urban migrations, censuses, and changing Indian policies as the community shaping factors in Indian communities across southern New England.
$25 per adult/ $20 per student includes admission to the museum and guided tour
Program group minimum: 25 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 8-12, College, Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Guided Tour at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
The past three and a half centuries brought about immense shifts in the cultural landscape of southern New England. The Native people whose homeland is the site of these shifts, experienced these dynamics in distinct ways. In this guided tour of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, the world’s largest Native American owned and operated museum, participants will walk through this time period and learn about dispossession, changing relationships to land, citizenship, servitude and enslavement, Christianity, market economies, urban migrations, censuses, and changing Indian policies as the community shaping factors in Indian communities across southern New England.
$25 per adult/ $20 per student includes admission to the museum and guided tour
Program group minimum: 25 participants
Program length: 1 hour
Grades 8-12, College, Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Teaching About Native People in the Americas
1 Day Professional Development Training for K-12 Teachers
What terminology for Native People is appropriate in our classrooms? How can lessons about history, social studies, literature, and art all incorporate Indigenous perspectives? What resources are available that correspond our school’s curriculum? Akomawt educators spend the day working with teachers and staff to understand the approaches and methods educators can use when incorporating Native American history and contemporary experiences into their lesson plans. Resources for K-12 teachers are shared and questions are answered throughout this interactive day long training.
$900 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 educators
Program length: 6 hours (1 hour break for lunch)
Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
1 Day Professional Development Training for K-12 Teachers
What terminology for Native People is appropriate in our classrooms? How can lessons about history, social studies, literature, and art all incorporate Indigenous perspectives? What resources are available that correspond our school’s curriculum? Akomawt educators spend the day working with teachers and staff to understand the approaches and methods educators can use when incorporating Native American history and contemporary experiences into their lesson plans. Resources for K-12 teachers are shared and questions are answered throughout this interactive day long training.
$900 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 educators
Program length: 6 hours (1 hour break for lunch)
Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Interpreting Native American Collections
1 Day Professional Development Training for Museum Professionals
Interpreting Native American collections in culturally appropriate and historically aware ways are vital to museum work in the 21st century. Terminology, collections methods, public programming and engaging with Indian communities all indicate the level of educational and cultural sophistication of your public humanities and cultural heritage institution. Akomawt educators will lead a day long training on the basics of these tenants, provide historical context to museum methods in use today, and provide resources that equip museum professionals and staff with a knowledgeable and Indigenously grounded foundation from which to work in your path forward.
$900 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 participants
Program length: 6 hours (1 hour break for lunch)
Professional Development for Museum Staff and Professionals
1 Day Professional Development Training for Museum Professionals
Interpreting Native American collections in culturally appropriate and historically aware ways are vital to museum work in the 21st century. Terminology, collections methods, public programming and engaging with Indian communities all indicate the level of educational and cultural sophistication of your public humanities and cultural heritage institution. Akomawt educators will lead a day long training on the basics of these tenants, provide historical context to museum methods in use today, and provide resources that equip museum professionals and staff with a knowledgeable and Indigenously grounded foundation from which to work in your path forward.
$900 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 participants
Program length: 6 hours (1 hour break for lunch)
Professional Development for Museum Staff and Professionals
Working Effectively with Native American People and Communities
1 Day Professional Development Training for Public Health & Public Service Providers
Serving a diverse population in ways that maximize effectiveness and reach can be challenging. Understanding the social, political and cultural dynamics that create underserved Indian families and communities can help make quantitative change in the number and quality of services provided to Native people. Our Akomawt educators highlight the challenges and various approaches to effectively serving Native people in your hospital, family practice, or social service agency.
$900 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 practitioners
Program length: 6 hours (1 hour break for lunch)
Professional Development for Public Health and Public Service practitioners
1 Day Professional Development Training for Public Health & Public Service Providers
Serving a diverse population in ways that maximize effectiveness and reach can be challenging. Understanding the social, political and cultural dynamics that create underserved Indian families and communities can help make quantitative change in the number and quality of services provided to Native people. Our Akomawt educators highlight the challenges and various approaches to effectively serving Native people in your hospital, family practice, or social service agency.
$900 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 practitioners
Program length: 6 hours (1 hour break for lunch)
Professional Development for Public Health and Public Service practitioners
How We Speak About Ninnimissinouk : Indigenous Terminology in the Classroom
What terms and words do I use when teaching my students about Indigenous People that are respectful and accurate? Native museum educators and allies lead a deep dive into the terminology surrounding Native People used over time, their cultural and historical context, and the instances in which they are appropriate or inappropriate. Accurate and socially just identifiers and names can be maintained over time through relationship building with Native communities and Native cultural institutions. Strategies to work with Native American collaborators are explored and these conversations highlight the histories of power and the ability to “label” in the Americas. Facilitators will also share resources for teachers generated by Akomawt Educational Initiative.
$500 per program + mileage
Program group max: 30 educators
Program length 1 hour
Professional Development for Teachers
What terms and words do I use when teaching my students about Indigenous People that are respectful and accurate? Native museum educators and allies lead a deep dive into the terminology surrounding Native People used over time, their cultural and historical context, and the instances in which they are appropriate or inappropriate. Accurate and socially just identifiers and names can be maintained over time through relationship building with Native communities and Native cultural institutions. Strategies to work with Native American collaborators are explored and these conversations highlight the histories of power and the ability to “label” in the Americas. Facilitators will also share resources for teachers generated by Akomawt Educational Initiative.
$500 per program + mileage
Program group max: 30 educators
Program length 1 hour
Professional Development for Teachers
Consulting Services Include
- Providing K-12 educators valuable and accurate content for curriculum development concerning New England’s population of color (including Native American and African American communities).
- Providing educators at all levels with Native sourced curriculum and resources created by Akomawt Educational Initiative and its partners as well as consultancy on how best to teach those resources
- Providing museums, historical societies, and cultural institutions with socially just and accurate historic information and the means with which to interpret Native collections and themes with and for Native communities.
- Serving museums, historical societies and cultural institutions with collaborative educational programming for students and visitors.
- Collaborating with college and university administrators and NAS, history, anthropology and education faculty for semester long co teaching, guest lectures, and consulting and coursework.
- Supporting college and university campus specific programs and diversity initiatives through student coalition trainings, programming and Native student support services.
- Providing a critical and needed link between key scholars and educators, which can include networking with local Native knowledge keepers and pairing when there is need as expert speakers or additional consultants.
- Functioning as facilitators for scholarly and cultural institutions with innovative partnerships to create a new educational outlook about Native America.
- Serving as a primary contact and conduit for interpreting historical and cultural landscapes.
- Creating travelling museum exhibits to address Native histories and contemporary issues and bring these issues to a wide public audience in a manner that is culturally competent, historically accurate and representative of the views of modern and historical Native America.
- Providing support and resources for public events and festivals such as educational song, dance and visual performances; ensuring that accurate cultural performers are utilized in informative and respectful ways.
- Scope and duration of projects requiring consultancy services can vary. Pricing will be determined according to the needs of your institution. Get in contact with us and let’s talk about your organization’s goals and anticipated outcomes, we will craft a consultancy plan that works within your time, staffing and budget requirements.
Online Resources
Please visit our friends for more information on Native history in CT and the surrounding region:
Battlefields of the Pequot War
Battlefields of King Philip's War
First Light Learning Resources examining the history of settler colonialism using primary and secondary resources: First Light Learning Resources
The Dawnland Teacher's Guide (First Inquiry) " What is the Relationship Between the Taking of the Land and the Taking of the Children?": Dawnland Teacher's Guide
Battlefields of the Pequot War
Battlefields of King Philip's War
First Light Learning Resources examining the history of settler colonialism using primary and secondary resources: First Light Learning Resources
The Dawnland Teacher's Guide (First Inquiry) " What is the Relationship Between the Taking of the Land and the Taking of the Children?": Dawnland Teacher's Guide