Voices of Hudson Valley’s Indigenous Peoples

Newly revisited oral histories of the Lenape, recorded on cassette tape in the 1970’s. Nick Schumatoff, the Curator at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, sought to preserve the Munsee-speaking Lenape culture and dialect, and took a team of researchers to Oklahoma where the last native Munsee speakers lived in 1976. We will discuss his findings, the implications, and what we can learn from their work. A lecture with slides and archival material and audio taking place in the Nature Center.