Coombs, Linda: - Linda Coombs is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe on Martha's Vineyard, and has lived in Mashpee for more than 40 years. Both of her grandchildren are enrolled with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, as was their father and grandfather. Linda has worked for 45 years as a museum educator, spending 11 years total at the Boston Children's Museum, 30 years in the Wampanoag Indigenous Program of Plimoth Plantation, and 9 years at the Aquinnah Cultural Center, a small house museum representing Aquinnah Wampanoag history. She has been an interpreter, an artisan, a researcher; led workshops and teacher institutes; written children's stories and articles on various aspects of Wampanoag history and culture; and developed and worked on all aspects of a wide variety of exhibits. Presently Linda is working on several consulting projects with the Aquinnah and Mashpee Tribes, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth 400, with others also waiting to start. The goal of all of Linda's work continues to be the communication of accurate and appropriate representations about the history, cultures, and people of the Wampanoag and other Indigenous nations.