Wampanoag Community Listening Session

The Commission on Indian Affairs, Suffolk University, and UMASS Boston are hosting a community wide Mashpee Listening Session on truth processes is scheduled for Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 from 5:00 PM -7:00 PM via Zoom. Tribal participants are encouraged to first watch the Indigenous Truth Commission event held in April at Suffolk University Law School, as the information shared there event may be helpful in providing feedback during the upcoming listening session. 

  Among the goals of that event was to learn about creating and implementing truth commissions, and their benefits and challenges, as well as to ignite a conversation about whether and how the establishment of a truth commission in the Commonwealth may contribute to rebuilding a government-to-government relationship with native nations and communities. The goal this listening session is to hear the Mashpee community’s thoughts and reactions to what they learned. 

Topic: Mashpee Listening Session on Truth Processes

Time: Wednesday, Mar 20, 2024 5-7PM

Zoom Link: https://suffolk.zoom.us/j/96269432223

Meeting ID: 962 6943 2223

 

Agenda (Moderator: Cedric Woods)

  1. Prayer 

  2. Creating a Safe Space and Ground Rules

  3. How We Arrived Here

  4. Overview of Other Truth Commission Processes 

  5. Purpose of Listening Session: to hear your thoughts, opinions about proposing truth process in the Commonwealth 

  6. Listening 

    1. What are your reactions to information shared at the Truth Event in April ?

    2. Would like to see with a comparable process in the Commonwealth? If yes, what would that look like? 

    3. What do you think next steps should be?

  1. Closing 

 

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