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Stories of Survivance & place-Based Tours 

Explore interactive Stories of Survivance and Place-based Tours which combine place-based research, original maps, documents, manuscripts, images, and photos from regional and national archives, research institutions and libraries. They provide place-based narratives and historical context.

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Before Boston Walking Tour
Before Boston Walking Tour

How the Freedom Trail Paved Over Indigenous History:

This Storymap provides a hidden historical narrative of Native spaces in greater Shawmut, before it became known as Boston.

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Owl's Head Bay Massacre and StoryMap
Owl's Head Bay Massacre and StoryMap

This StoryMap supports a place-based historical recovery initiative and mapping, which revisits James Cargill's murderous bounty rampage against Penobscot people in July 1755.

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Walking Tour of Native Erasure in Colonial Cambridge
Walking Tour of Native Erasure in Colonial Cambridge

This virtual walking tour and map focuses on Native Spaces in Massachusett homelands, in what became the colonized place the English called Newtowne, later Cambridge. While many of the locations may be familiar landmarks, this walking tour provides a hidden historical narrative which tells a story of Massachusett survivance and settler colonialism.

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Please Use Caution: Upstander Project’s Learning Hub contains historical resources and documents that include racist and dehumanizing language, explicit accounts of violence, and ideologies rooted in beliefs about human hierarchy, settler colonialism, and genocide toward Indigenous peoples.