Ancient stories, new neighbors: decolonizing indigenous homelands and 17TH-century new england [ancient stories, new neighbors is a level i, two-week, in-person summer institute for 25 elementary,…

Ancient stories, new neighbors: decolonizing indigenous homelands and 17TH-century new england [ancient stories, new neighbors is a level i, two-week, in-person summer institute for 25 elementary, middle, and high school teachers hosted by plimoth patuxet museums (PPM) and offered 7/24-8/6/2022 on PPM?s campus in plymouth, MA. IT brings together innovative thought leaders from the nation?s classrooms, DIG sites, archives, and museums in the place mayflower?s arrival accelerated a series of events that permanently changed an already-existing, complex network of indigenous communities, each with its own rich cultural traditions, politics and aspirations. The institute will use mourt?s relation, a 1622 english pamphlet, as a case study in decolonizing historical narratives and recentering indigenous voices by employing a range of related primary sources including archaeology, landscape, material culture, oral history, and written documents. The institute will reveal how an indigenous-colonial regional landscape was built and evolved through collaboration and conflict in the 1600S.]