Nutahkeemun Artist Collective

Artistic Director

Kitty Hendricks-Miller (Nenaweeta) is a Mashpee Wampanoag tribal citizen and Elder and is currently the Indian Education Coordinator for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s Education Department. 
Kitty recently served as a writer on the Truth In Harvest  episode of PBS’s Molly of Denali and has appeared in The Mayflower episode of We Shall Remain and the feature film Crooked Arrows. 
For over thirty years, Kitty has managed and performed with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, using her musical gifts to share traditional Eastern songs with audiences all over New England and the UK. 
She has extensive experience in the museum sector, as she demonstrates traditional cooking and gardening techniques, helping to ensure accurate representation of Wampanoag ancestral life ways. Kitty currently serves on the boards of the Indigenous Resource Collaborative and the Native Land Conservancy. She is honored to be a part of the We Are the Land creative and production team.

Artistic Producer

Siobhan Juanita Brown (Keesuty8ee Elm) is from Roxbury, MA and is a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. She lives on her ancestral homelands in Mashpee. She holds a BFA degree in Performing Arts and African American studies from Emerson College and is a graduate of the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Performance credits include Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play at A.R.T., The Emancipation of Valet de Chambre at Cleveland Play House, Studs Terkel’s American Dreams: Lost and Found with the Acting Company, Medea and Antony and Cleopatra for Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of A Negro with Brandeis Theatre Company and several seasons with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. She has worked extensively in arts education as the former Associate Director of Education at Citi Performing Arts Center and Director of School & Teacher Programs at Actors’ Shakespeare Project, as well as teaching for the Strand Theatre, CSC, and the Acting Company. As a playwright Siobhan wrote A Piece of Silver based on recorded conversations with her maternal and paternal grandmothers who are Mashpee Wampanoag and African American, respectively.
 
She has worked with the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project as a student of the language since 2005. From 2013 to 2021 Siobhan was a language apprentice and member of the founding teaching team of Weetumuw Katnuhtôhtâeekamuq, the first Wôpanâak language and culture immersion school providing academic and Indigenous education using a Montessori pedagogy for decolonization and language reclamation. She is Montessori certified for ages 3 – 6.

Siobhan has been a board member for Montessori for Social Justice and the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival for Region 1. She is also a panelist and facilitator for Art Equity’s BIPOC Leadership Circle and BIPOC Surviving Predominantly White Institutions hybrid programs. 

She is an active member of the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers and a co-founder of Nutahkeemun Artist Collective.


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Artistic Producer

Michelle St. John is the Content Producer for We Are the Seeds, and the Executive Producer of From Here, With a View - a podcast, centering Indigenous perspectives on life, art and everything in between.

Originally based in Toronto, Michelle was Co-Managing Artistic Director of Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble (1999 – 2008) and Artistic Producer of Red Diva Projects (2008 – 2016). Michelle later joined Frog Girl Films and The Breath Films as a writer and producer on several short films and the feature film Red Rover. For Wabung Anung Films, Michelle produced and production managed the documentary series Urban Native Girl and AMPLIFY. For Little Bear Big Wolf Productions, Michelle produced and production managed three seasons of the documentary series, Merchants of the Wild and for One Leg Tapping Productions, she produced Christa Couture’s short animated series, How to Lose Everything for CBC Gem.

As a director, her film Colonization Road garnered a Golden Sheaf Award from the Yorkton Film Festival and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for the Donald Brittain Award — Best Social/Political Documentary.

In 2021, Michelle moved to her Wampanoag homelands in Mashpee, Massachusetts and soon joined the Board of Directors for Cotuit Center for the Arts and in 2024, was a recipient of Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Artist Capacity Grant. Michelle is also a member of the producing team and cast of We Are the Land, a community devised play that shares the Wampanoag experience. She also performs with Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers and is a co-founding member of Nutahkeemun Artist Collective.
​Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers is a non-profit 501c3​ - EIN - 99-1397402

Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers serves as a fiscal sponsor for Nutahkeemun Artist Collective
​and other Wampanoag led arts projects.

Your donations are tax deductible!
If you would like to donate by check - please send to:
Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers
PO Box 305
Mashpee, MA 02649