We will welcome Nipmuc Elder and Director of the Ohketeau Cultural Center, Larry Spotted Crow Mann to open our tenth annual Building On Our Momentum (BOOM!): Community Day.

About Larry Spotted Crow Mann:

Larry Spotted Crow Mann is an enrolled citizen of Hassanamisco Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts. He is an award-winning writer, poet, cultural educator, Traditional Storyteller, tribal drummer /dancer and motivational speaker involving youth sobriety, cultural and environmental awareness. Mann is Director of the Ohketeau Cultural Center. He is also a former board member of the Nipmuk Cultural Preservation ,which is an organization set up to promote the cultural, social and spiritual needs of Nipmuc people as well as an educational resource of Native American studies.Mann also serves as a Review Committee Member, at The Native American Poets Project at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. He travels throughout the United States, Canada and parts of Europe to schools, colleges, pow wows and other organizations sharing the music, culture and history of Nipmuc people. He has also given lectures at universities throughout New England on issues ranging from Native American Sovereignty to Identity.