Indigenous American Perspectives
Bristol CC Events
Bristol honors Indigenous Peoples Day with Fall Programs across all four campuses.
Turtle Island, as North America is known to many Native peoples, is home to many persevering, thriving, Indigenous peoples. Please join us in celebration of their resilience. We welcome all members of the college community to attend these free events and learn from Indigenous artists from near and far.
Indigenous Peoples' Day programming made possible by the support of the Bristol Foundation and The Bristol Holocaust and Genocide Center.
Bristol Community College acknowledges that the locations on which we teach, learn, and connect are situated on the unceded territory of the Wampanoag Tribal Nation who has lived here for millennia.
11 a.m. Native Poets Speak
Fall River Campus, Room H209-H210
We will host Indigenous poets Lucille Lang Day (Wampanoag) and Ron Welburn (Gingaskin Cherokee, Assateague, Lenape, African American)
2 p.m. Black on Black Pottery Demonstration
New Bedford Campus, Room 25
Native artisan MarvinLee Martinez, a fourth-generation potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico.
11 a.m. Black on Black Pottery Demonstration with MarvinLee Martinez
Fall River Campus, H Building Brick Area
12:30 p.m. Poetry/Jazz Workshop with Ron Welburn
Attleboro Campus, Theatre
We will host Indigenous poet Ron Welburn (Gingaskin Cherokee, Assateague, Lenape, African American)
12:30 p.m. Sint Sink Singers - Tribal Drumming and Pow-Wow Demo
Fall River Campus, J Building Tent
Leroy Maddix - Grass Dancer by Phyllis Cahaly (CC BY ND 2.0)
12:30 p.m. Sint Sink Singers - Tribal Drumming and Pow-Wow Demo
Wing's Court, Downtown New Bedford
(Rain Location: New Bedford Campus, Community Room, Room 1013)
Indigenous Film Festival with Panel Discussion
Fall River Campus, H209-210