Fishweir Building Event Photos
Jazzy
Grissett and other students from the Neighborhood
House Charter School build the fishweir on the Boston Common.
Gill
Solomon, sachem of the Massachuseuk people, and
Ross Miller, public artist and director of the Ancient
Fishweir
Project, talk wth students about the fishweir.
Kitty Hendricks-Miller, Linda Coombes and Annawon Weedon of the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers talk with Neighborhood House Charter School students and the public about the fishweir and their dances and songs.
Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers begin their performance in front of the fishweir on Boston Common while Boston Public School children look on.
Jim
Peters of the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers
joins with Boston Public School children in the Duck Dance.
Project
Director Ross Miller, Wampanoag Medicine Man
Guy Cash, Archeologist Ellen Berkland, and students
and teachers from the Little House Alternative
School gather to begin the first
annual fishweir building on the Boston Common
Students from the Little House School use
a rock to
pound in stakes for the fishweir.
Students
and teachers of the Little House School building fishweir.
Closeup
view of completed fishweir.