Paula Peters is a politically, socially and culturally active citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. For more than a decade, she worked as a journalist for the Cape Cod Times and is now co-owner of SmokeSygnals, a Native-owned and -operated creative production agency. As an independent scholar and writer of Native, and particularly Wampanoag, history, she produced the traveling exhibit “Our Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History” and The Wampum Belt Project, documenting the art and tradition of wampum in the contemporary Wampanoag community. Paula is the executive producer of the 2016 documentary film Mashpee Nine and author of the companion book, a story of law enforcement abuse of power and cultural justice in the Wampanoag community in 1976. Paula lives with her husband and children in Mashpee, Massachusetts.