Tomaquag Museum

05/28/2026

🛶 Out the window it went!⁠
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On March 27, our mishoon (dugout canoe) began its journey to conservation. With scaffolding, pulleys, spotters, and plenty of teamwork, the canoe was carefully lowered, moved through a museum window, and safely transported for preservation work.⁠
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Thank you to Linda Nieuwenhuizen, Give Me a Break Conservation, and U.S. Art Company for helping protect this important cultural item for future generations.⁠
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05/27/2026

Connection, care, and community are at the heart of what we do. 🌊✨

A heartfelt thank you to the visitor who gifted Niske, our Ocean Nexus Fellow, with this thoughtful token of appreciation. Moments like these remind us how meaningful Indigenous-led education, storytelling, and environmental stewardship can be.
Every conversation shared helps strengthen relationships between people, place, and water. 💙

05/26/2026

Please welcome Tyler Lewis to Tomaquag Museum as our new Events Coordinator. Tyler is a seasoned fund development professional with experience in donor communications, written and face-to-face solicitation, volunteer management, in addition to event management and planning. In her career, she has aided Jewish Family Service if RI, Providence After School Alliance, St. Patrick Academy, CCRI, Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts experience and Home & Hospice Care of RI in advancing their missions.

05/21/2026

From all of us at Tomaquag - Kutaputush! Thank you! Your gifts during Native Nonprofit Day make it possible for us to continue to create Native-led solutions, educate all our relations, and promote healing, respect, and advocacy for Indigenous populations of the Dawnland. If you would like to stand with us and support our Native Nonprofit Day campaign, there’s still time! Visit the link below to donate today. We hope you will visit us soon to see our new exhibit: “Revolution to Reclamation: Freedom Through Indigenous Sovereignty,” highlighting the impact and contributions of Indigenous communities as we celebrate the Nation’s 250th.

Read Silvermoon's interview with Ocean State Media to learn more about the exhibit: https://www.oceanstatemedia.org/history/at-tomaquag-museum-a-new-exhibit-asks-what-250-years-of-america-means-for-indigenous-people?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ctct

Native Nonprofit Day: https://www.givenative.org/organization/Tomaquag-Indian-Memorial-Museum-The

“Revolution to Reclamation” invites visitors to reconsider the country’s founding from Native perspectives

05/21/2026

Native-led organizations have the solutions to the issues that Native communities are facing – but the systemic funding inequities Native-led organizations face make it more difficult to implement Native-led solutions. When you support Tomaquag Museum with a gift today during Native Nonprofit Day, you are uplifting Rhode Island’s only Native-led museum dedicating to telling the stories of Indigenous people of the Dawnland. Your impact makes it possible for us to continue our mission.
https://www.givenative.org/organization/Tomaquag-Indian-Memorial-Museum-The

05/21/2026

Did you know - less than .01% of philanthropic funding goes to Native organizations? When you stand with Tomaquag Museum today, you support us in our mission to education everyone on Indigenous cultures of the Dawnland through engagement and shared dialogue to reconcile the past and empower present and future generations.

Your donation is more than a gift; it’s part of continuance. You help carry Indigenous knowledge forward for future generations. Click on the link below to visit our giving page. From all of us at Tomaquag Museum, Kutaputush - we are so grateful for your support!

This Native Nonprofit Day, YOUR donation to Tomaquag Museum will strengthen our programs and ensure we have the resources needed to continue our mission to educate all our relations (everyone) on Indigenous cutlures of the Dawnland through engagement and shared dialogue;...

05/21/2026

Today is Native Nonprofit Day! Please join us today to celebrate Native leadership, amplify Native voices, and uplift Indigenous culture, history, and knowledge. Please share this opportunity with your friends and thank you for helping us to spread the word.
https://www.givenative.org/organization/Tomaquag-Indian-Memorial-Museum-The

05/20/2026

Native Nonprofit Day is tomorrow – can you help Tomaquag Museum to uplift Indigenous voices, education, storytelling, and culture to reconcile the past and empower present and future generations? Your donation to Tomaquag Museum helps in so many ways. Kutaputush – thank you.
https://www.givenative.org/organization/Tomaquag-Indian-Memorial-Museum-The

05/19/2026

📚✨ In celebration of Little Free Library Week, the Tomaquag Museum team shared some of the books they’ve donated to our Little Free Library!

From Indigenous authors to meaningful community reads, each book was chosen to inspire connection, learning, and storytelling. Take a look at what our staff contributed and stop by to discover your next read. 📖

05/18/2026

📚✨ Adding another story to our Little Free Library!⁠
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Our Marketing Manager donated The Bone Thief by Vanessa Lillie, a powerful Indigenous thriller that we’re excited to share with the community.⁠
Take a book, leave a book, and help keep stories circulating. 🌿⁠
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