July 27th 2026 Lunch & Learn
Join us on July 27th at Noon for “Sovereignty, Resistance, Resilience, Survivance: Maintaining Traditional Culture in Today’s World” where we will discuss the actual meaning of sovereignty, what it was for our ancestors, and how we carry and enact it in the world we live in today.
About Linda Coombs: I am a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe on Martha's Vineyard, and have lived in Mashpee for more than 40 years. My two grandchildren are enrolled with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, as was their father and grandfather.
I have worked for 45 years as a museum educator, and spent 11 years total at the Boston Children's Museum, 30 years in the Wampanoag Indigenous Program at Plimoth Plantation, and 9 years at the Aquinnah Cultural Center, a house museum built by an Aquinnah Wampanoag man, and showing that history. I have been an interpreter, an artisan, a researcher; led workshops and teacher institutes; written children's stories and articles on various aspects of Wampanoag history and culture; and developed and worked on all aspects of a wide variety of exhibits.
The goal of all of my work continues to be the communication of accurate and appropriate representations about the history, cultures, and people of the Wampanoag and other Indigenous nations.
