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For the Lenape Nation, an indigenous tribe in Pennsylvania, the Delaware River is their ancestral home and a place they come to pay their respects.
Clan Mother Shelley Windamakwi DePaul and her son Chief Adam Waterbear DePaul have dedicated their lives to protecting the river.
Asked about the significance of the river, Adam DePaul said, “There are pragmatic reasons — it’s huge for traveling, of course, it provides food, but the spiritual significance, the cultural significance, the river just communicates so much humility.”
Keeping a balance between nature and development motivates the Lenape’s activism.
“What can we do to keep the balance, or in many cases restore the balance?” Shelley DePaul asked. “Because our early ancestors lived in balance, and now we need to relearn that.”
Lenape Clan Mother Shelley Windamakwi DePaul sings an honor song for her ancestors while kayaking along the Delaware River. / Credit: CBS News
“Finding a new harmony”
Partnering with other organizations, the tribe’s efforts helped lead to a 2021 ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin after concerns that those chemicals could cause health problems and hurt aquatic life and ecosystems. In 2002, they helped kill a proposed dam on the river that would have created a lake along the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border.
“It’s really important to understand that we are not against construction and development,” Adam DePaul said. “It’s because there is severe and unwarranted risk to the environment and/or to the cultural history of the area.”
Now, they’re fighting against the construction of huge warehouses near the river because of concerns about pollution draining into the river.
“It’s often one of the biggest points that people…
02/16-02/18/2025: During this freezing February 2025, THUE youth visited the Mohican Outdoor Center and stayed in a cabin with their leaders, Antonio and Lizzette, for three days. When we arrived, it was a noticeable contrast to the snow in New York City. Even on the way to the location, we noticed how the frost-covered trees and snow-abundant environment contrasted with the chilly rain back home. When we arrived, our car had trouble going up the hill initially. We had to settle various materials into the cabin and then retrieve our gear to keep us warm and hydrated later.
“The nature in whole was very nice because it gave us obstacles that we had to overcome together.” THUE member Ethan was referring to our troubles with the ice and snow on the first day of arrival. Once all tasks were completed, we got to relax in the warm cabin as it sheltered us from the harsh wind.
THUE youth seemed to really enjoy being back in nature; they ran up the trail to the boathouse and climbed over mini mountains of snow. While on the back porch or walking near a tree, they would constantly crack off icicles from the surfaces. Snow angels and rolling down hills of snow were another common trend during the hike. Lyly, a THUE member, enjoyed attending this trip because it allowed her access to natural beauty and socialization. “At the beginning, I was stressed because of everything going on in the world, just the thought of all of it was overwhelming. When I was in the nature, I forgot about all my problems. Leaving the trip was bittersweet because I wanted to spend more time there.”
Lyly was able to catch a break from the fast-paced and, at times, chaotic moments that have filled a lot of young…
WILKES-BARRE — A funeral director raised concerns with the selection for Luzerne County Coroner at the county council meeting on Tuesday night.
Thomas Wiedlich, a funeral director with the Wroblewski Funeral Home in Forty Fort, objected to the selection of Dion Fernandes as coroner, citing past controversies involving Fernandes while working as a police officer and his job as president of the Howell-Lussi Funeral Home in West Pittston.
Wiedlich, who spoke on behalf of five other funeral directors at the meeting, said the coroner should not have “any affiliation or employment with a funeral home” because it “leads to a potential conflict of interest as recommendations may be made by the coroner to use a funeral home in which there is an affiliation.”
The coroner’s office issues death certificates and cremation permits and is responsible for investigating and certifying causes of death. Fernandes said he starts as coroner May 2, and he noted that previous coroners and many deputy coroners have worked for funeral homes.
“The funeral home I’m affiliated with, they surround me,” Fernandes said of his critics who attended Tuesday’s meeting. “They’re just ticked off that I’m in that position. It’s unethical for me to go out and solicit business as the county coroner. You cannot do that.”
The county ethics code prohibits employees and officials from having financial interests that are “to the detriment of the proper discharge of his or her official duties.” The code specifically says a coroner can’t solicit “business for a funeral home” with which he or she is affiliated or “recommend funeral home services to anyone while engaged in county business.”
County Manager Romilda Crocamo announced the selection of Fernandes as coroner on Friday and issued a statement defending the selection Wednesday.
“The County has a strict personnel policy and ethics code, and…
Penn State men’s basketball will play Providence in November in a neutral site game, according to Jon Rothstein.
While an official date is still to be determined, the game is set to be played at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
The Nittany Lions and Friars have faced off three times in program history, with Penn State holding a 2-1 record. The most recent matchup came in 2012, when the blue and white won 55-52 in overtime.
Mike Rhoades will return to the helm for his third year as the head coach, but will be without graduating seniors Ace Baldwin Jr., Nick Kern Jr., Puff Johnson, Zach Hicks, and D’Marco Dunn. The Nittany Lions also lost three freshmen to the transfer portal, but will bring in three new freshmen through the 2025 recruiting cycle.
The last time Penn State played at Mohegan Sun Arena was in November of 2016, where it lost to Duke and Cincinnati in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament.
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STOCKBRIDGE — The Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, representing the town’s original native American settlers, has completed its acquisition of sacred land totaling 372 acres at the northern base of Monument Mountain.
The $2.5 million transaction, recorded at the Middle Berkshire Registry of Deeds earlier this month, restores the forest and farmland to the tribal ancestors forced out of their western New England and upstate New York homelands by European colonial settlers more than 200 years ago.
The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans is reclaiming 351 acres of sacred homeland in Stockbridge
The purchase was funded through a $2.26 million state grant.
The property encompassing Fenn Farm and Sky Farm in the Cherry Hill Road section of Stockbridge was deeded to the tribe now based in Bowler, Wis., by trustees of the Swann family, the former owners of the acreage.
Fenn Farm and adjacent Sky Farm, a 372-acre parcel on the northern slope of Monument Mountain, has been acquired by the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians for $2.5 million, mostly covered by a state grant.
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The undeveloped land went on the market in 2022 for $3 million following the death of artist and author Clover Swann. Her home was sold separately to Charlotte L. Gaspard, trustee of the Swann Real Estate Trust, for $307,500.
Tribal leaders were not available for comment this week, since any statements must be approved by the Tribal Council. Tribal President Shannon Hosley has said that the land will be maintained as is.
In the early 1600s, more than 25,000 Mohicans lived in the Upper Hudson Valley of New York and the Housatonic Valley of western New England.
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Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples living along North America’s eastern seaboard knew about earthquakes long before Europeans appeared in the region, according to an expert.
Tribal nations like the Seneca and Cayuga of the six-nation Iroquois Confederacy (also including Mohawk, Tuscarora, Onondaga and Oneida) as well as Algonquian peoples like the Natick (Massachusetts Indians) and Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada all have a word for earthquake, according to Boston College seismologist John Ebel.
Researching which tribes in the region have a word for earthquake could be useful, “because that would suggest that earthquakes were a rather repetitive thing,” Ebel noted in a recent talk at the Seismological Society of America’s Annual Meeting.
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A statement by the Society noted that while northeastern North America might not feel like earthquake country compared to California, the region has a long record of witnessing large quakes. Since the past 400 years (coinciding with European colonisation), there have been written records that have documented these quakes.
However, according to Ebel, the record can be extended into the past with the help of Native American knowledge and can help scientists better understand earthquake hazard in the area.
He cited two instances. Ebel pointed to Moodus, Connecticut. ‘Moodus’ comes from an Algonquin dialect and means “place of noises.”
“For hundreds of years, people have heard “booms”—as if echoing in an underground cavern—in the area. Ebel said the Moodus noises are similar those he heard as a graduate student camping in the Mojave Desert following a magnitude 5.1 earthquake,” the statement observed.
“The Moodus noises sounded like distant thunder of a boom coming up from the ground, very similar to what I heard from the California aftershocks several years before,” said Ebel, who noted that modern seismic instruments have recorded earthquake swarms in Moodus. “So the ‘place of noises’ means that they were…
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Baseball Recap: Dallas Victorious
Dallas won the last time they faced Greater Nanticoke Area and things went their way on Monday too. The Mountaineers came out on top against the Trojans by a score of 4-1. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Mountaineers.
Aaron Patton looked comfortable as he didn’t allow a single earned run and allowed only one hit while striking out seven over four innings pitched.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Kaden Coyne, who went 1-for-2 with one home run and two RBI. That’s the most RBI he has posted since back in May of 2024. Jack Dale also deserves some recognition as he hit his first double of the season.
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| 04/21/25 – Home | 4-1 W |
| 03/26/24 – Home | 17-2 W |
| 03/22/23 – Away | 8-0 W |
| 04/18/22 – Away | 7-0 W |
| 03/27/21 – Away | 5-8 L |
| + 5 more games |
Dallas now has a winning record of 5-4. As for Greater Nanticoke Area, they dropped their record down to 2-10 with the defeat, which was their fourth straight on the road.
Both teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. Dallas will head out to challenge Wilkes-Barre at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The Wolfpack will roll in looking for their fourth straight win, something the Mountaineers surely won’t give up without a fight. As for Greater Nanticoke Area, they are taking a road trip to square off against Hazleton Area at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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