Indigo Bethea dances with Chief Harry “Hawk” Edmonds during the fourth annual Pokanoket Heritage Day event held at Burr’s Hill Park in Warren, RI, on September 15, 2024. Click here for a 26-minute YouTube video of the event. Click here for pictures and video of the third annual event, here for the second annual event, and here for the first Heritage Day event. Click here for photos in the Warren Times-Gazette.

(Above, left) Pokanoket Tribe members from Nova Scotia, Zydric and Garnet Purdy, talk with R. Trusty Williams, Jr. (right) from Chappaquiddick. (Above, center) Sagamore Winds of Thunder shows one of his cousins an article about the Pokanoket Tribe. (Above, right) Artist Svonne Virgadamo weaves a fishing net.

(Above) Roger “Gray Fox” Desrosiers and his wife, Donna, talk about some of the items they have for sale (center) while Richard “Snowy Owl” Gosselin (right) looks over items at another table.

(Above) A young boy and his mother enjoy some of the dances perforemed by members of the Tribe.

(Above) Harry Edmonds dances with event attendees and four-year-old Jade Morrison while the crowd looks on.

(Above) A woman watches a young girl trying her hand at grinding corn while folks from Providence and Warren talk with Tribal Historian Donald “Strong Turtle” Brown, Jr. relates some of the history of the Pokanoket Tribe.