PPLT Awarded Better Beaches Grant for Drum Event this Summer

With the support of this grant from Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, PPLT will hold a new summer event we are calling “Healing The Earth: Interactive Eastern Algonquin Drum Session”. This effort is led by Suki Wompsikuk (Black Eagle), aka Daryl Jamieson, who is the Vice Chairman, Clan Historian, and Cultural Committee Chairman of the Pocasset Pokanoket Tribe. He is also the founder and leader of the Eastern Medicine Singers, an eastern woodland Algonquin dialect intertribal American Indian drum group.

Along with the Massachusetts Praying Indians’ group, Generations Drum, PPLT will organize, promote and carry out a 2.5 hour event, on August 2nd, 2025 with a rain date of August 3rd, 2025 at Wollaston Beach, Quincy, MA.

The event will be an educational and cultural event celebrating the eastern Algonquin traditions that remain alive in our area and will focus around the drumming, participatory dancing and cultural offerings of local tribes. Songs are primarily in our traditional algonquin language, preserving the language by song. The intention is to introduce and educate the public about eastern indigenous culture and connect tribal members to their own culture.

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is a non-profit public interest harbor advocacy organization. We are made up of thousands of citizens, as well as scientists, and civic, corporate, cultural and community leaders whose mission is to restore and protect Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, and the marine environment and share them with the public for everyone to enjoy.