I enjoy opening each quahog and observing their heft, the unique layered purple tones, and the story I sense unfolding as I carve and drill fairly thick and three dimensional wampum beads, jewelry and rich diplomatic adornment. I employ wild-harvesting to highlight ancient ties to homelands in Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island, and share my distinctive perspective as a self-reliant Aquinnah Wampanoag woman. Hours spent onboard vessels for in-shore and off-shore fisheries research afforded the experience of life on the Atlantic ocean; that fluid sense of home my whaling ancestors had to have. My authentic wampum jewelry, Bear maps and gardens are interventions: sustainable art and placemaking that engenders creativity and keeps me rooted in the seasonal cycles here. It is restorative to the post-colonized Indigenous spirit.