Native nations & living voices
Jonathan James-Perry
Contemporary artist and cultural educator
Massachusetts connection
Aquinnah / Noepe
James-Perry shares Aquinnah Wampanoag knowledge through art and public education. His recorded words describe connections among people, ocean, land, and oral tradition. Listening to a community member gives us a different kind of source from a textbook written about that community.
You can use your device’s reading tools or read with a partner.
Your turn, historian
Find a detail. Build an idea.
- What did this person or group do? Point to a detail in the reading.
- How did this person care for a community, its rights, or its knowledge?
- What would you like to find out next? Which kind of source could help?
“Jonathan James-Perry mattered because ___. A detail that supports my idea is ___.”
Follow the evidence.
This short reading is an original classroom summary. Open the source with your teacher to check details and learn more.
Read the source: peabody.harvard.edu ↗Ask: Who made this source? What can it tell us? What might it leave out?