Tomaquag Museum's Culture Bearers Series with Nakai Northup

Join Tomaquag Museum on Thursday, July 28, 2022, at 6:00 pm for an evening with Indigenous educator Nakai Northup as he presents "Lifeways".

This will be their fourth in their 2022 Culture Bearer Series. Throughout the year Tomaquag Museum hopes to introduce you to some incredible Indigenous educators who have been vital to the work of sharing and preserving cultural knowledge. 

Nakai Northup serves as head of education at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum where he's spent more than 10 years developing educational programs on eastern woodland tribal history and culture for visitors of all ages.

Nakai is the vice-chair of the Tribe's Natural Resources Protection Committee. He also serves as a board member of the Stonington Historical Society.

An avid hunter and fisherman, Nakai is a frequent speaker and lecturer on historic preservation, environmental Indigenous activism, food sovereignty, and teaching traditional eastern woodland histories and lifeways. Having both Mashantucket Pequot and Narragansett bloodlines, Nakai has spent his entire life on both reservations and is a passionate advocate and activist for Native American rights. With a strong love for his tribal communities and as a father of two beautiful children, Nakai is dedicated to preserving tribal histories and passing down cultural traditions to younger generations.