BIPSI
Boston’s Indigenous Public Space Initiative was born out of a dyer need for spiritual and cultural spaces to engage in traditional practices outside of our reservations. As urban spaces attract diverse American Indian populations, it enhances the importance of having locations for spiritual enrichment that feel like a home away from home.
BIPSI prides itself on reuniting a once vibrant indigenous community in the Greater Boston area. Through this, we strive to bridge the cultural, social, and spiritual gap for indigenous people, by maintaining connections with mother tribes while building partnerships with local government, state parks, nature and wildlife organizations, and allies. Ideally, we will provide a safe space for people to connect, learn, and find balance in, the often conflicting values of, indigenous and mainstream society.
Culture is Medicine
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
All of US - Stomp Day, A Day of Healing
September 20-21, 2025
11:00 AM - 11:00AM
Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation
*No one person is expected to stomp for 24-hours. We encourage you to rest, be in community, and participate for as long as you can. We are treating this as a public health crisis with an emphasis on community support and healing. This is a space to begin conversations and leave with community. *
This 24-hour healing ceremony is the first of its kind.
Stomp culture is a form of engagement using call and response through song and movement. Traditionally it was used when traveling from one place to the next. In this instance, we are stomping our way through trauma into healing.
We stomp for those impacted by MMIWR.
We stomp out the spirit of addiction.
We stomp out the spirit of suicide.
We stomp out the spirit of abuse.
Event Origin
WE STOMP.
WE PRAY.
WE HEAL.
WE STOMP. WE PRAY. WE HEAL.
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