Native nations & living voices
Juli Vanderhoop
Contemporary community leader
Massachusetts connection
Aquinnah / Noepe
Vanderhoop has served on Aquinnah’s select board and community preservation committee. Her work shows one way an island resident can help care for a town’s shared places. Town offices are separate from tribal offices, even when citizens participate in both communities.
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?
“Juli Vanderhoop 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: marthasvineyardcf.org ↗Ask: Who made this source? What can it tell us? What might it leave out?