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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Topic: </span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">"Moshup's Continuance: Sovereignty and the Literature of the Land in the Aquinnah Wampanoag Nation"
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Featured Speaker: </span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Rachel Sayet (Mohegan)
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Friday, April 25, 1 pm, Wheatley, 1-058
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<p class="Default">Rachel Sayet received her MA in anthropology from Harvard University Extension School in May 2012 and recently completed a fellowship at Yale University, for which she researched Yale President Ezra Stiles' interactions with Native people
in the Northeast during the 17th century. Her research and writing addresses a number of historical and contemporary topics in Native New England. Rachel currently works as a Library Assistant for the Mohegan Tribe, and frequently lectures on her research
and as an advocate for greater public education on the Native peoples of New England
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<p class="Default">Mohegan, Pequot, Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag people have many stories about Moshup, which have been passed down for hundreds of years. In the 1920’s, Rachel Sayet's great-aunt Gladys Tantaquidgeon began recording stories about Moshup among
the Aquinnah of Martha’s Vineyard. In this project, Rachel continues on that trail. Through interviews with Native culture bearers and storytellers from various tribal nations in New England, as well as research in newspapers, books, and journals pertaining
to these stories, her presentation demonstrates that although throughout time, many different people have recorded Moshup stories--each from a unique perspective and for different purposes--these stories have always connected the Aquinnah Wampanoag people
to the landscape, thereby reinforcing sovereignty for their nation, ensuring their survival. Rachel’s talk is based on her master’s thesis from Harvard University, which was awarded Best Thesis in the Behavioral Sciences for the ALM program in 2012.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Please contact Professor Amy Den Ouden (amy.denouden@umb.edu)</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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