From Time of Creation:  The People and the Place of the Wampanoag Homeland

Speaker: Linda Coombs

Where: Mural Barn, Atwood Museum
When: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 – 5:00 PM

Linda Coombs will discuss some of the Wampanoag origin histories and the length of time they’ve been on the Cape and the rest of their homeland; also their traditional way of life, and how they lived in harmony with the environment for thousands of years, keeping the earth and natural systems intact.

Reservations are available by clicking HERE.  Admission is $10 for non members, and free for members.

About Linda Coombs:

Coombs is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe on Martha’s Vineyard, and has lived in Mashpee for more than 40 years. Her two grandchildren are enrolled with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, as was their father and grandfather. She has 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. She has 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 her work continues to be the communication of accurate and appropriate representations about the history, cultures, and people of the Wampanoag and other Indigenous nations.

Sponsored by Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank