Recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 10/08/2022
Please help us keep this calendar up to date! If this activity is sold out, canceled, or otherwise needs alteration, email mindy@kidsoutandabout.com so we can update it immediately. If you have a question about the activity itself, please contact the organization administrator listed below.
At 11:00am, Evan Pritchard will give a PowerPoint lecture, “Westward Migrations; Esopus-Munsee on the Susquehanna.” Evan is a historian, writer, lecturer and musician. He is the author of numerous books and publications including “No Word for Time” and “Native New Yorkers.” Evan will play the flute and read some of his writing, as well.
Doc, “Mud Turtle”, Morgan will be the featured speaker and teacher at 1:00 pm. While many of the Munsee-speaking people moved west, as Evan Pritchard points out, some stayed behind and lived on their ancestral land. Among these people were the ancestors of Doc Morgan. As an elder, he will tell us his story about growing up in Mahwah, N.J., on ancestral lands of the Ramapough/Lenape people. As a child, he and his family lived largely on and from the land, but over the decades, he witnessed changes that “development” brought to the Ramapo mountains and the Ramapo River. Once able to eat fish from the river, drink water from the streams and roam the mountains to hunt deer, Doc witnessed his mountains become Real Estate and the rivers become dumping grounds for industrial waste. Hear the stories of a life lived and wisdom gained over four generations in the Ramapo Mountains by Doc “Mud Turtle” Morgan.
*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.