Professor Evan Pritchard, Director of the Center for Algonquin Culture and author of Native New Yorkers and dozens of other books, will give a talk on the original inhabitants of Pelham, New York. Tying together colonial records and treaties, linguistics, archaeology, and oral tradition, Professor Pritchard will attempt to paint a picture of what life in Pelham was like for men and women before Henry Hudson’s visit in 1609. This talk will also touch on several Sunksquas, or lady chieftains, in the area: Mama Nuchwe, Awashonks, Quashawan, Nipapoa, Puhketay, Kochkotee, Annetie Pownocke, Lyssie, and Wastowanncett.

About:

Evan Pritchard, of Mi’kmaq descent, has been doing field interviews with Native American elders since 1990 and has served as the director of the Center for Algonquin Culture for the last 27 years. A lecturer on native studies at Vassar, Pace, Marist, Columbia, SUNY, John Jay, the University of Ontario, UMass, and Ramapo State, he has also presented at Gracie Mansion, AMNH, Smithsonian, and online. He recently presented a retrospective of his mapping work at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries (Clarkson University). He has written over fifty books on native culture, history, language, and spirituality, including Native New Yorkers; Henry Hudson and the Algonquins (Chicago Review Press); Bird Medicine (Inner Traditions/Simon and Schuster); Native American Stories of the Sacred (Turner Books) No Word For Time (Millichap) Red Head Band (Resonance Books) a collection of multi-lingual (English and various Algonquian languages) poetry, and Greetings from Mawenawasic (Foothills Publishing).

Cost Free

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