Lorén M. Spears, MSEd, Narragansett,  Executive Director of the Tomaquag Museum, artist, author, and cultural educator will give a talk on the new edition Roger Williams’s A Key into the Language of America. First published in 1643,  the book is one of the most important artifacts of early Indigenous American culture. In it, Williams recorded the day-to-day experience of the Narragansett people of Rhode Island in their own words, the first documentation of an American Indian language in English.

This Tomaquag Museum edition includes for the first time cultural commentary provided by the Narragansett tribal community as well as modern linguistic information provided by a leading authority in the study of American Indian languages.