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EVENTS

EVENTS
Below is a timeline of YCARE events, activities and partnerships in order starting from the most recent in which illustrate how YCARE members are working to support Yarmouth becoming increasingly racially equitable.

YCARE Events

Learn & Respond

Bringing people together to learn about and to respond to injustice in our community and beyond. We need systems that are deliberately supporting racial equity through proactive and preventative measures.

Feds Recognize Wabanaki Name For Waterfall On Royal River

YCARE spent 14 months building a coalition of local partners, seeking insight from language keepers and requesting permission from tribal...

World Fish Migration Day 2024

YCARE joined other community organizations to celebrate the return of fish migration to the Royal River! YCARE members Ron Siviski and...

Exploring Wabanaki Maine History

Last week, over 70 residents of this place we now call Yarmouth had the opportunity to explore Wabanaki Maine history through an...

Riverfront Preserve Land Acknowledgement & Guided Nature Walk

On September 23, 2023, we gathered for a Guided Nature Walk & Inaugural Land Acknowledgement Reading in Riverfront Woods Preserve...

Renaming the Royal River First Falls as Pumgustuck

Wabanaki residents of Yarmouth and their allies in town (including members of YCARE and the Royal River Conservation Trust) recently sent...

Indigenous Reflections on the Royal River

On the brisk sunny afternoon of May 5th, YCARE and RRCT hosted a group of paddlers on the Royal River. While navigating a two mile...

Reflections on the First Reading of YCARE Land Acknowledgement

Late Tuesday afternoon, with candles lit and the voice of the river resounding, 20 community members and friends gathered at Royal River...

Supporting the Black Student Union at Yarmouth High School

YCARE members donated to support a BSA student trip to the Museum of African American History in Boston.

Invitation to a First Reading of the YCARE Land Acknowledgement

Please feel free to invite friends and family, bring lanterns, drums, cookies, warm cider...

Friends of the Presumpscot River Ceremony for Indigenous People's Day

YCARE members attended a ceremony of remembrance and in honor of the Abenaki that lived, thrived and cared tor the Presumpscot River.