Colonization and the Wampanoag Story Book Talk
Sat, Nov 23
|Mattapoisett
On Saturday, November 23, from 2:00-4:00 at the Mattapoisett Library, the Mattapoisett Museum and the Library co-host Aquinnah Wampanoag scholar, author, and historian Ms. Linda Coombs.
Time & Location
Nov 23, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Mattapoisett, 7 Barstow St, Mattapoisett, MA 02739, USA
About the Event
On Saturday, November 23, from 2:00-4:00 at the Mattapoisett Library, the Mattapoisett Museum and the Library co-host Aquinnah Wampanoag scholar, author, and historian Ms. Linda Coombs. She will discuss her book, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story, the process of writing it, and why it is important to teach various perspectives of American history.
It was published in September of 2023, as one of five titles in Penguin Random House’s Race to the Truth series of similarly themed stories intended for middle grades. Other books include Slavery and the African American Story by Patricia Williams Dockery and This Land by Ashley Fairbanks.
Coomb’s non-fiction book is aimed at educating 7th graders about the Wampanoag perspective of the European colonization of New England, and was recently at the center of a controversy in East Texas, when a parental school board reclassified it as fiction and moved it from the children's section to the…