Events in Massachusetts: Please click here for updates
Compiled by Indigenous Peoples Day MA and Italian Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day. Events will continue to be added as information becomes available. To include your event on this list, please email ItaliansforIPD@gmail.com.
NuNutahshay8ôk P8tôp: My Family Whale
October 2, 5:30-7 pm | FALMOUTH, MA | In-person event
Brad Lopes (Aquinnah Wampanoag) will discuss the intimate, spiritual connection Wampanoag people have with whales. The Mashpee Wampanoag Whaling Panels Traveling Exhibit will also be on display.
Location: Highfield Hall & Gardens, 56 Highfield Dr., Falmouth, MA 02540
Presented by Highfield Hall.
Full event details here.
Open House and Wampanoag Culture Celebration
October 4, 10-2 pm | FALMOUTH, MA | In-person event
Experience the rich heritage of the Wampanoag people through a wampum making demonstration, corn husk craft, performance by the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, and more!
Location: Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Dr., Falmouth, MA 02540
Presented by Highfield Hall & Gardens in partnership with the Mashpee Wampanoag Education Department.
Full event details here.
Gather, Hunt, Protect: Our Connection to Land and Wildlife
October 4, 10-11 am | STOCKBRIDGE, MA | In-person event
Travis Spice shares how traditional hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering practices continue to thrive within the Stockbridge-Munsee Community with deep respect for sustainability and balance.
Location: The Mission House, 39 Main St., Stockbridge, MA 01262
Presented by The Trustees.
Full event details here.
Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration at the Swampscott Farmers Market
October 5, 11:30-12:30 pm | SWAMPSCOTT, MA | In-person event
The Nettukkusqk Singers, an Eastern Woodland Native American intertribal women’s group, will perform during the market.
Location: 22 Monument Ave., Swampscott, MA 01907
Event flyer here.
Red Hawk Singers and Dancers at Plimoth Patuxet Museums
October 7, 5-7 pm | PLYMOUTH, MA | In-person event
Enjoy an evening of song, dance, and scenery with the Red Hawk Singers and Dancers. Admission: $5, free for members.
Location: 136 Warren Ave., Plymouth, MA 02360
Full event details here.
Arlington Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration with BOMBAntillana
October 11, 1-2:30 pm | ARLINGTON, MA | In-person event
Experience one of the oldest living musical traditions of Borikén (Puerto Rico). Bomba evolved as a powerful form of expression and resistance by Indigenous Taino and West African peoples during Spanish rule and beyond.
Location: First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Arlington, MA 02476
Organized by the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum and the Unitarian Universalist Arlington Indigenous Justice Working Group in partnership with many Arlington organizations.
Full event details here.
Boston Indigenous Peoples Day March
October 11, 12-3 pm | BOSTON, MA | In-person event
Help send the message loud and clear that we must honor and acknowledge the Indigenous history of Massachusetts, as well as the continued presence of Indigenous peoples throughout the state. It is time for the MA State Legislature to pass bills to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day statewide, ban Native mascots, and more!
Sponsored by Indigenous Peoples Day MA, United American Indians of New England, North American Indian Center of Boston, Cultural Survival, MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda, New Democracy Coalition, Boston Peoples Reparations Commission, and Italian Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day
Event flyer here.
Book Event: Wôpanâak Seasons
Oct. 11, 10:30-11:30 am | FALMOUTH, MA | In-person event
Carrie Anne Vanderhoop will give a family friendly talk about her new picture book, “Wôpanâak Seasons”. Through lyrical prose and vibrant illustrations, the story follows a young Wampanoag child on a seasonal journey through Aquinnah, on Noepe (Martha’s Vineyard).
Location: Highfield Hall & Gardens, 56 Highfield Dr., Falmouth, MA 02540
Presented by Highfield Hall.
Full event details here.
Indigenous Peoples Day Observance
October 11, 10-5 pm | NEWBURYPORT, MA | In-person event
A free, family friendly outdoor gathering to celebrate traditional and contemporary Indigenous cultures, arts, and diversity. Highlights include the creation, ceremonial launch, and paddle of a traditional hand crafted muhsh8n (dugout canoe) made by Darius Coombs and Jonathan James Perry and an ákʷitən (birch bark canoe) made by Jason Pardilla.
Location: Waterfront Park, 35 Merrimac St., Newburyport, MA 01950
Sponsored by the First Religious Society, Imagine Studios and others.
Full event details here.
Language of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community
October 11, 10-11 AM | STOCKBRIDGE, MA | In-person event
Join Jeremy Mohawk, Language Teacher for the Stockbridge-Munsee Community for an engaging exploration of the Mohican and Munsee languages and the world views they carry.
Location: The Mission House, 39 Main St., Stockbridge, MA 01262
Sponsored by The Trustees.
Full event details here.
Fifth Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
October 12, 2-4 pm | EDGARTOWN, MA | In-person event
This event, held in collaboration with Mass Audubon's Felix Neck, brings much-needed historic, contemporary, and cultural awareness around the Wôpanâak peoples. Organized by Wôpanâak nonprofit Sassafras Earth Education in collaboration with local Wôpanâak speakers, drummers, musicians.
Location: Felix Neck, Edgartown, MA 02539
Full event details here.
Inspiration in Indigenous Stories, Song & Art
October 12, 3-5 pm | FALMOUTH, MA | In-person event
Join in a celebration of Indigenous culture through a conversation about working and growing up in Falmouth with Chief Earl H. Mills, Sr. and Roxanne Mills Brown of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, moderated by Sandra Faiman-Silva. This event will also feature songs by Indigenous musicians Kim Moberg and Emma Brennan, stories about the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project with Mae Alice Baird, and poetry and visual art by Ocean Eversley.
Location: Falmouth Museums on the Green, 55 Palmer Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540
Full event details here.
Indigenous Peoples Day at Tufts University
October 12, 12:30-4 pm | MEDFORD, MA | In-person event
Celebrate Indigenous peoples and cultures across the world with the Indigenous Students’ Organization at Tufts. Highlights include student vendors, speakers, performers, and Indigenous foods. Open to all students and the public.
Location: Residential quad, 180 Packard Ave., Medford, MA 02155
Sponsored by the Indigenous Students Organization at Tufts University.
Watertown Celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day 2025
October 12, 12-3:30 pm | WATERTOWN, MA | In-person event
This event will feature Indigenous musicians, artists, foods, crafts, and vendors. Presenters include the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers and storyteller Teddy Hendricks (Mashpee Wampanoag, Nipmuc). Activities include wampum creation demonstrations, corn husk doll creations, and face painting.
Location: Hosmer Elementary School, 1 Concord Rd., Watertown, MA 02472
Organized by the Pigsgusset Initiative.
Full event details here.
Indigenous Peoples Day at the Institute of Contemporary Art
October 13, 10-5 pm | BOSTON, MA
Free admission.
25 Harbor Shore Dr., Boston, MA 02210
Details here.
Indigenous Peoples Day at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
October 13, 11-5 pm | BOSTON, MA
Celebrate and honor Indigenous Peoples Day with community and family through art-making, storytelling, and more. Collaborators include Erin Genia (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), Hawk Henries (Nipmuc), Yvonne Peterson (Chehalis), and Elizabeth James Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag).
25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115
Details here.
Museum of Fine Arts Indigenous Peoples Day Open House
October 13, 10-5 pm | BOSTON, MA
Free admission, gallery tours, performances, family art-making activities, and more. Presenters include Jenny Oliver (Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag), Katherine Santos (Choctaw-Apache), Alyssa Harris (Mashpee Wampanoag), Malissa Costa (Mashpee Wampanoag, Afro-Indigenous, Cape Verdean), Erica Nelson Maynard (Penobscot), Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, Hawk Henries (Nipmuc), and Alan Michelson (Mohawk).
465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115
Full event details here.
Brookline Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
October 13, 1-4 pm | BROOKLINE, MA | In-person event
This family friendly event will feature Indigenous speakers, Indigenous art and craft vendors, advocacy organizations, and food from local restaurants.
LocationL Florida Ruffin Ridley School, 345 Harvard St., Brookline, MA 02446
Sponsored by the Brookline Indigenous Peoples Celebration.
Full event details here.
Indigenous Peoples Day at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Museum of Natural History
October 13, 9-5 pm | CAMBRIDGE, MA
Free admission and Indigenous-led gallery talks by Stephanie Mach (Diné) about Indigenous women as makers, matriarchs, and caretakers of communities and cultural traditions and by Audrey Jacob (Choctaw) and James Walkingstick (Cherokee) about the Indigenous game of stickball.
26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Full event details here.
Concord Museum Indigenous Peoples Day Family Program with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers
October 13, 10-11 am | CONCORD, MA | In-person event
Experience traditional Eastern Woodlands social songs and dances performed by artists from the tribal nations of Mashpee and Aquinnah.
Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA 01742
Register here.
Cornhusk Creations at Castle Hill
October 13, 10-11:30 am | IPSWICH, MA | In-person event
Crane Estate educators will share Indigenous stories and a corn husk craft developed by collaborator Anne Jennison, an Abenaki storyteller and traditional performer. Learn about wampum, Turtle Island, the Three Sisters, and the story of the corn husk doll.
Location: Castle Hill, Crane Estate, 290 Argilla Rd., Ipswich, MA 01930
Sponsored by The Trustees.
Full event details here.
Indigenous Peoples Day Newton Ceremonial Celebration
October 13, 11-5 pm | NEWTON, MA | In-person event
An outdoor, family-oriented celebration of Indigenous culture, art, and history. This Indigenous-led, annual event features music and dancing, cultural presentations, artists, traditional foods, and more. Over 50 Indigenous vendors, artists, and organizations will be represented. Numerous accessibility measures will be in place, including ASL interpreters, an accessible viewing and elder area, a sensory friendly/quiet zone, and more.
Location: Albemarle Field, 250 Albemarle Rd., Newton, MA 02460
Sponsored by Indigenous Peoples Day Newton
Full event details here.
Winchester Indigenous Peoples Day Family Celebration
October 13, 10-12 pm | WINCHESTER, MA | In-person event
This event will feature educational activities for all ages at 11 am. A fun and participatory performance by the Red Hawk Singers and Dancers will take place from 11-12 pm.
Location: Wright-Locke Farm, 78 Ridge St., Winchester, MA 01890
Sponsored by the Network for Social Justice, Wright-Locke Farm, Winchester Community Music School, Native Americans in Lexington, Lexington History Museums, and the Town of Lexington.
Full event details here.
Indigenous Peoples Day at the Worcester Art Museum
October 13, 10-4 pm | WORCESTER, MA | In-person event
Free Admission.
55 Salisbury St., Worcester, MA 01609
Details here.
