13th Annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival: A Celebration of Native American Art, Music, & Cultures

Saturday, August 1 & Sunday, August 2 10 am – 5 pm

Unity Park Waterfront, Turners Falls, MA

This year, 2026, the festival will include memorable, inspiring presentations by:

beloved Mohawk Elder Tom Porter and beautiful mesmerizing flute music by Nipmuck flute maker Hawk Henries Aquinnah Wampanoag singer songwriter Thea Hopkins Nipmuc culture bearer Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines, who will share Eastern woodlands skills demonstrations and lead social dances which all are invited to participate in Penobscot Rez Dog Singers return and will be joined by another drum group TBA. Justin Beatty will emcee

The History Tent will feature talks by Marge Bruchac, members of the Native Land Conservancy, and Evan Pritchard. There will be children’s activities including corn husk doll making with Mashpee-Wampanoag Kitty Hendricks-Miller, Indian Education Coordinator for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. We host about 40 outstanding Indigenous artists and authors in a colorful and diverse marketplace that extends the full length of the riverside bike path on both sides. It is a wonderful, uplifting, multi-generational, accessible and free event people look forward to every year. We hope to see you there!