Annawon Weeden is an enrolled member of his mother’s Mashpee Wampanoag tribal community located on Cape Cod, Mass.  He formerly worked in the Cultural Resource Dept. for his father's tribe, the Mashantucket Pequot in Connecticut.  Annawon has developed a comprehensive understanding of the diversity among native customs, and his passion for preserving culture has been clear throughout decades of working at and for numerous institutions, such as Plimoth Plantation, National Geographic, and PBS.