Last month, the Indian Education Department hosted a youth paddle down the Nemasket River. The Nemasket River, being in Middleborough, is a Wampanoag Traditional waterway that leads into the Taunton River, and eventually reaches the Atlantic ocean.
Earl “Chiefy” Mills Jr. led the morning paddle, and participants made their way to Middleborough’s annual Herring Festival. The day continued to the Nemasket River Village Celebration. There, the Native Land Conservancy received a land donation of an ancient Wampanoag village homesite known as the Ja Mar Turkey Farm.
