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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.
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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.
YCARE Meets with Freeport Councilperson Daniel Pilch
On September 8, 2021, the YCARE Steering Committee Meeting met with Daniel Pilch to hear about the public forum that Freeport citizens...
“Freedom & Captivity: Maine Voices Beyond Prison Walls,” UMVA Gallery, Portland Maine.
The project aims to help the public imagine a future without prisons through exhibitions, workshops, webinars, and more.
#Teach Truth Rally at 91- 97 Main Street, Yarmouth
August 28, 2021, 9am #Teach Truth Rally at 91- 97 Main Street, Yarmouth YCARE members pledged support of teachers committed to teaching...
YCARE Land Acknowledgement Working Group
Members continue to create a Land Acknowledgement for YCARE, and hopefully model a process for other Yarmouth community groups.
Interview with Debbie Leighton
Mary Lou Michael, YCARE Steering Committee Member, interviewed Debbie Leighton, one of the co-authors of The Gatherings: Reimagining...
“One Year Later” YCARE Meeting in Royal River Park
On June 23, 2021, YCARE members met exactly one year after the first event they organized together, the screening of the movie “13th.”...
Little Free Justice Library established
YCARE members established a Little Free Justice Library in front of the Yarmouth First Universalist Church at 97 Main Street, Yarmouth....
#Teach Truth Rally at the Captain Walter Gendall Memorial Plaque, Route 188, Yarmouth
YCARE members joined Educators, legislators, town council and community members at the site of an historical plaque located approximately...
Removal of “Historic Yarmouth” sign in front of the Ledge Cemetery
False narratives perpetuate racism and cause harm. This Historic Yarmouth sign erected in 1969 tells a colonist story “ORIGINALLY SETTLED...
Letter to the Editor in Portland Press Herald: "Racism Response Will Be A Journey for Yarmouth"
"We acknowledge we are writing from the land of the Wabanaki people. In the aftermath of two racial incidents in our town, people have...
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