6th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Newton Ceremonial Celebration,
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Join us for the 6th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Newton Ceremonial Celebration, the largest Indigenous-led ceremonial celebration in Massachusetts. Together, we gather to honor the cultures, histories, resilience, and living traditions of Indigenous Peoples while building stronger relationships through education, community, and respect.
This year's theme,
🌿 Medicines of the Lands: Healing Through Ancestral Plants
celebrates the sacred relationship Indigenous Peoples have maintained with the natural world since time immemorial. Across generations, plants have provided nourishment, healing, ceremony, and guidance. Indigenous knowledge of the land is rooted in observation, reciprocity, and responsibility—teachings that continue to sustain our communities today.
Throughout the day, you'll experience Indigenous ceremonies, music, dance, storytelling, educational presentations, traditional arts, and Indigenous-owned businesses while learning about the importance of protecting our lands, waters, and traditional ecological knowledge.
Whether you are Indigenous or an ally, everyone is welcome to join us in a day of celebration, learning, healing, and community.
🌿 What You'll Experience
🪶 Opening Indigenous Ceremony
🔥 Sacred Fire
🪘 Traditional Drum Groups
🎶 Indigenous Music & Dance Performances
🌎 Tribal Representatives and Cultural Educators
🌱 Teachings on Indigenous Plant Medicines and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
🎨 Indigenous Artists & Demonstrations
🛍️ Indigenous Artisan Marketplace
🌮 Indigenous Food Vendors
📚 Educational Exhibits
👧 Children's Activities
💚 Sensory-Friendly Space
♿ Accessible Event
🤝 Community Organizations
Admission
🎉 FREE and open to the public!
Everyone is welcome.
2026 Theme
Medicines of the Lands: Healing Through Ancestral Plants
For thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples have lived in relationship with the lands and waters, learning from the plants that provide food, medicine, shelter, and spiritual connection. These teachings have been carefully protected and passed from generation to generation through family, ceremony, language, and lived experience.
This year's celebration honors the wisdom of our ancestors, the resilience of Indigenous communities, and our shared responsibility to protect the lands that continue to sustain all life.
🌿 Honoring Indigenous Knowledge
The teachings shared throughout this event are living cultural traditions that have been carried forward by Indigenous communities for generations. We invite everyone to listen, learn, and participate with respect and humility.
Many of the plant medicines, ceremonies, songs, dances, and cultural teachings presented during Indigenous Peoples Day are shared by Indigenous knowledge keepers for educational and cultural understanding. We ask all attendees to honor these teachings by not appropriating, commercializing, misrepresenting, or removing them from their cultural context.
Not every teaching is meant to be practiced or shared outside of the communities from which it comes. We encourage everyone to appreciate these traditions as gifts entrusted to us for learning—not as resources to claim or profit from.
Respect begins with listening, learning, asking permission when appropriate, acknowledging the Indigenous communities who have safeguarded this knowledge, and supporting Indigenous voices.
🌎 Community Values
We ask everyone attending to help us create a respectful and welcoming space by:
• Honoring Indigenous cultures, traditions, and ceremonial protocols.
• Asking permission before photographing ceremonies, sacred spaces, or individuals.
• Respecting that some songs, stories, medicines, and ceremonies are not intended to be copied, taught, or shared outside their original cultural context.
• Supporting Indigenous artists, educators, authors, and businesses by purchasing directly from them.
• Caring for the land by leaving no trace and helping protect our shared environment.
• Listening with an open heart and learning with humility.
Interested in Participating?
We are currently accepting:
🌿 Indigenous Vendors
🎨 Indigenous Artists
🌮 Food Vendors
🤝 Community Organizations
🙌 Volunteers
💚 Sponsors
Please scan the QR codes on our flyer or visit our website to learn more and register.
Hosted By
H.U.A.H. – Mothers Path to Ancestors, Inc.
Organizer of Indigenous Peoples Day Newton
Our mission is to educate, uplift, and celebrate Indigenous cultures while creating opportunities for Indigenous communities to share their voices, traditions, and living histories with the broader public.
Together, we honor the First Peoples of these lands and work toward a future built on respect, truth, relationship, and healing.
Join us for the 6th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Newton Ceremonial Celebration, the largest Indigenous-led ceremonial celebration in Massachusetts. Together, we gather to honor the cultures, histories, resilience, and living traditions of Indigenous Peoples while building stronger relationships through education, community, and respect.
This year's theme,
🌿 Medicines of the Lands: Healing Through Ancestral Plants
celebrates the sacred relationship Indigenous Peoples have maintained with the natural world since time immemorial. Across generations, plants have provided nourishment, healing, ceremony, and guidance. Indigenous knowledge of the land is rooted in observation, reciprocity, and responsibility—teachings that continue to sustain our communities today.
Throughout the day, you'll experience Indigenous ceremonies, music, dance, storytelling, educational presentations, traditional arts, and Indigenous-owned businesses while learning about the importance of protecting our lands, waters, and traditional ecological knowledge.
Whether you are Indigenous or an ally, everyone is welcome to join us in a day of celebration, learning, healing, and community.
🌿 What You'll Experience
🪶 Opening Indigenous Ceremony
🔥 Sacred Fire
🪘 Traditional Drum Groups
🎶 Indigenous Music & Dance Performances
🌎 Tribal Representatives and Cultural Educators
🌱 Teachings on Indigenous Plant Medicines and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
🎨 Indigenous Artists & Demonstrations
🛍️ Indigenous Artisan Marketplace
🌮 Indigenous Food Vendors
📚 Educational Exhibits
👧 Children's Activities
💚 Sensory-Friendly Space
♿ Accessible Event
🤝 Community Organizations
Admission
🎉 FREE and open to the public!
Everyone is welcome.
2026 Theme
Medicines of the Lands: Healing Through Ancestral Plants
For thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples have lived in relationship with the lands and waters, learning from the plants that provide food, medicine, shelter, and spiritual connection. These teachings have been carefully protected and passed from generation to generation through family, ceremony, language, and lived experience.
This year's celebration honors the wisdom of our ancestors, the resilience of Indigenous communities, and our shared responsibility to protect the lands that continue to sustain all life.
🌿 Honoring Indigenous Knowledge
The teachings shared throughout this event are living cultural traditions that have been carried forward by Indigenous communities for generations. We invite everyone to listen, learn, and participate with respect and humility.
Many of the plant medicines, ceremonies, songs, dances, and cultural teachings presented during Indigenous Peoples Day are shared by Indigenous knowledge keepers for educational and cultural understanding. We ask all attendees to honor these teachings by not appropriating, commercializing, misrepresenting, or removing them from their cultural context.
Not every teaching is meant to be practiced or shared outside of the communities from which it comes. We encourage everyone to appreciate these traditions as gifts entrusted to us for learning—not as resources to claim or profit from.
Respect begins with listening, learning, asking permission when appropriate, acknowledging the Indigenous communities who have safeguarded this knowledge, and supporting Indigenous voices.
🌎 Community Values
We ask everyone attending to help us create a respectful and welcoming space by:
• Honoring Indigenous cultures, traditions, and ceremonial protocols.
• Asking permission before photographing ceremonies, sacred spaces, or individuals.
• Respecting that some songs, stories, medicines, and ceremonies are not intended to be copied, taught, or shared outside their original cultural context.
• Supporting Indigenous artists, educators, authors, and businesses by purchasing directly from them.
• Caring for the land by leaving no trace and helping protect our shared environment.
• Listening with an open heart and learning with humility.
Interested in Participating?
We are currently accepting:
🌿 Indigenous Vendors
🎨 Indigenous Artists
🌮 Food Vendors
🤝 Community Organizations
🙌 Volunteers
💚 Sponsors
Please scan the QR codes on our flyer or visit our website to learn more and register.
Hosted By
H.U.A.H. – Mothers Path to Ancestors, Inc.
Organizer of Indigenous Peoples Day Newton
Our mission is to educate, uplift, and celebrate Indigenous cultures while creating opportunities for Indigenous communities to share their voices, traditions, and living histories with the broader public.
Together, we honor the First Peoples of these lands and work toward a future built on respect, truth, relationship, and healing.
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Where is it happening?
Albermarle Field, 250 Albemarle Rd,Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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