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Mohegan to soft open South Korea’s INSPIRE on November 30

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Mohegan has announced the soft opening of its Mohegan INSPIRE Entertainment Resort in Incheon, South Korea, taking place on November 30.

The first opening phase includes the resort’s three hotel towers, the country’s first multi-purpose arena, as well as meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibition facilities such as Korea’s largest ballroom, signature restaurants, and the digital entertainment street Aurora.

With the tagline ‘Inspiring Worlds, Inspiring People’, Mohegan plans to continue to open the entire INSPIRE resort in phases during the first half of 2024. 

“This is a momentous occasion for Mohegan, marking both a historic partnership for our Tribe and a new echelon for our system of premier integrated entertainment resorts around the world,” stated James Gessner Jr, Chairman of the Mohegan Tribe and the Mohegan management board.

“We have been honoured to work closely with the Korean government to make this day possible, and we look forward to INSPIRE contributing to the local and regional economies by creating local jobs, bringing visitors to enjoy the Incheon region, and attracting new businesses both on and adjacent to the property.

“I am grateful to the Mohegan and Mohegan INSPIRE teams for their efforts and their leadership and look forward to many years of success and partnership in South Korea.”

The soft opening will feature the resort’s three hotel towers – Forest Tower, Sun Tower and Ocean Tower – together have 1,275 rooms as well as their own unique concept, while the multi-purpose indoor INSPIRE Arena has a 15,000-seat capacity.

The 150-meter-long Aurora digital entertainment street will also be revealed, which includes large LED screens, alongside the glass-domed Splash Bay indoor water park, state-of-the-art meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibition facilities and 10 INSPIRE-owned restaurants including Michael Jordan’s Steak House.

Mohegan will also have several…

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Delaware Tribe

Clay Township Quiz – TheTimes of Noblesville

By Paula Dunn

Well, we’ve come to the last township to be highlighted during the Bicentennial celebration. It’s time to test your knowledge of Clay Township history!

1. Who was Clay Township’s first settler?

2. Carmel/Clay Township is known for its roundabouts. When was the first roundabout built?

3.  When Home Place was laid out as a new addition to Indianapolis in 1914, it effectively replaced a much older Clay Township community already in that area. What was the older community’s name?

4. What is early Clay Township settler Ezekiel Clampitt’s claim to fame?

5. What was Carmel originally called?

6. True or False — the first Quaker Meeting in Hamilton County was in Clay Township.

7. What was Eldorado?

8. From 1942 to 1989, Purdue University operated an experimental agricultural farm in Clay Township. What was the farm’s name and where was it?

9. Who was the first mayor of Carmel and when was he elected?

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And the answers . . .

1. That depends. The first permanent white settler was Francis McShane. McShane erected a cabin in southeast Clay Township in 1825.

HOWEVER, the county histories note that a member of the Delaware tribe, George Ketchum, and his family were already settled on Cool Creek when McShane initially arrived in 1824. Ketchum worked a farm just like his white neighbors until he decided to leave in 1831 to join the rest of his tribe in the west.

2. 1996. It was built by Brenwick Development Inc. as part of the Prairie View subdivision and was located at the intersection of Main Street and River Road.

The first roundabout constructed by the city of Carmel opened the following year at 126th Street and Hazel Dell Road.

3.  Pleasant Grove. Pleasant Grove was a small farming community that dated…

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Berkshire Museum to repatriate Native ancestral remains to Stockbridge-Munsee nation

The Berkshire Museum is repatriating the remains of two Native ancestors to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.

In the 1990s, in response to a federal law, the Berkshire Museum classified the two cranial bone fragments as “culturally unidentifiable.” Under federal regulations, if Native remains are not classified as culturally affiliated, museums are not required to proactively reach out to tribes.

In addition to the human remains, the Museum has 13 objects that are believed to have been buried with the remains; 10 pottery shards and three stone tools.

The only documentation the museum has are tiny pieces of paper saying the remains, which were donated in the late 1800s, were dug up from river washout near an Indian burial ground in the Springfield – Longmeadow area.

A 1995 report from the University of Massachusetts concluded these remains belong to one adult and one adolescent.

Now, after consulting with representatives from the Stockbridge – Munsee band, the museum published a notice in the federal register stating the remains are affiliated with that tribe.

Jason Vivori, the museum’s collections manager, said under the lawmuseums determine which tribe the remains belong to, but he said the Berkshire Museum sees the repatriation process differently.

“If they [Native tribes] provide us with a good reason why, we’re not questioning it or challenging it. This is their culture and their ancestors,” Vivori said.

The tribe did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Bonney Hartley, the Stockbridge-Munsee tribal historic preservation officer, told the Berkshire Eagle, “We are trying to step in and respectfully care for the ancestors and provide a dignified reburial for them, so they don’t remain on shelves at the museum and disturbed in their journey.”

The museum will hold the remains until the tribe is ready to take physical custody of them.

Revised federal regulations that…

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Berkshire Museum to repatriate Native ancestral remains to Stockbridge-Munsee nation

The Berkshire Museum is repatriating the remains of two Native ancestors to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.

In the 1990s, in response to a federal law, the Berkshire Museum classified the two cranial bone fragments as “culturally unidentifiable.” Under federal regulations, if Native remains are not classified as culturally affiliated, museums are not required to proactively reach out to tribes.

In addition to the human remains, the Museum has 13 objects that are believed to have been buried with the remains; 10 pottery shards and three stone tools.

The only documentation the museum has are tiny pieces of paper saying the remains, which were donated in the late 1800s, were dug up from river washout near an Indian burial ground in the Springfield – Longmeadow area.

A 1995 report from the University of Massachusetts concluded these remains belong to one adult and one adolescent.

Now, after consulting with representatives from the Stockbridge – Munsee band, the museum published a notice in the federal register stating the remains are affiliated with that tribe.

Jason Vivori, the museum’s collections manager, said under the lawmuseums determine which tribe the remains belong to, but he said the Berkshire Museum sees the repatriation process differently.

“If they [Native tribes] provide us with a good reason why, we’re not questioning it or challenging it. This is their culture and their ancestors,” Vivori said.

The tribe did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Bonney Hartley, the Stockbridge-Munsee tribal historic preservation officer, told the Berkshire Eagle, “We are trying to step in and respectfully care for the ancestors and provide a dignified reburial for them, so they don’t remain on shelves at the museum and disturbed in their journey.”

The museum will hold the remains until the tribe is ready to take physical custody of them.

Revised federal regulations that…

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Mohegan

The New Generation Entertainment Resort

With the aspiration of “Inspiring Worlds, Inspiring People,” INSPIRE aims to set a new standard for entertainment resorts in South Korea, offering an unforgettable and unparalleled experience to visitors of all generations and nationalities. INSPIRE plans to open the entire resort in phases by the first half of 2024, employing a gradual opening strategy.

“This is a momentous occasion for Mohegan, marking both a historic partnership for our Tribe and a new echelon for our system of premier integrated entertainment resorts around the world,” said James Gessner Jr., Chairman of the Mohegan Tribe and the Mohegan Management Board. “We have been honored to work closely with the Korean government to make this day possible, and we look forward to INSPIRE contributing to the local and regional economies by creating local jobs, bringing visitors to enjoy the Incheon region, and attracting new businesses both on and adjacent to the property. I am grateful to the Mohegan and Mohegan INSPIRE teams for their efforts and their leadership and look forward to many years of success and partnership in South Korea.” 

A soft opening on November 30 will introduce a premier hotel comprising three towers, each with a distinct concept (Forest Tower, Sun Tower and Ocean Tower); INSPIRE Arena, a multi-purpose indoor performance venue with a total capacity of 15,000 seats; and Aurora, a 150-meter-long digital entertainment street featuring super-large LED screens. This opening also showcases Splash Bay, a glass-domed indoor water park (swimming pool available to hotel guests in the initial phase), more than 10 INSPIRE-owned restaurants, including the world-famous Michael Jordan’s Steak House, and state-of-the-art MICE facilities.

“INSPIRE is significant to us not only for our growth in the global market but also for the opportunity to share Mohegan’s legacy and spirit with the world,” said Ray Pineault, President and Chief Executive…

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Native American veterans practice Indigenous art, connect through shared experiences

Throughout Native American Heritage Month, the University, in collaboration with The Heard Museum’s Native Artists Resource Group, displayed prints crafted by Native American veterans along the walls of the ArtSpace West gallery on the West Valley Campus from Nov. 8 to Nov. 22.

The concept was brought to life with two three-day workshops taught by Jacob Meders, an associate professor of interdisciplinary arts and performance. The workshop showed veterans the process of making, carving and block printing — a traditional Indigenous art form. Later, their work was displayed in the ArtSpace West gallery.

Block printing is “carving into blocks and then picking them up and printing them to the press,” according to Meders.

“It’s not about what you get out of it for yourself, it’s about what do you do for others,” Meders said. “It’s more meaningful.”

The Native Veterans Print Exhibition was created by Marcus Monenerkit, the director of community management at the Heard Museum.

“The Native veterans have been healing through the arts for generations,” Monenerkit said. “As you know, the past warriors would come home and take part in ceremonies, and that ceremony is art.”

For this project, Monenerkit wanted to provide a safe space to “create and to be free and to be with other veterans.” 

The printing workshop was not only about the art itself but also the effect it can have on others. 

“Instead, it is focused on the purpose of art. Art is a purposeful…

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Blue catfish stomachs reveal ecological toll of their appetite

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Noah Bressman, a biologist at Salisbury University in Maryland, begins dissecting of a large blue catfish to determine the contents of its stomach. 

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In terms of appetite and willingness to gorge on just about anything, blue catfish have few peers in the Chesapeake Bay, experts say.

“They’re eating everything, anything they can get their mouths around,” said Noah Bressman, a fish biologist at Salisbury University in Maryland.

Now, a clearer picture is emerging of their ecological toll. Two new studies based in tidal rivers on opposite sides of the Bay show that the invasive species is gobbling up prized native aquatic life, such as menhaden and blue crabs, at high rates.

Previous studies have suggested as much. But the latest research adds important insights.

The investigation conducted by Bressman’s team marks the first time that the nonnative’s eating habits have been examined on the eastern side of the Bay. Meanwhile, Virginia scientists have used a previous blue catfish stock assessment to produce another first: estimates of how much of each species is eaten within a major Chesapeake river.

The goal is to determine whether plentiful and voracious blue catfish are endangering the survival of their prey within a particular river or even the entire Bay complex. Many anglers and biologists have suspected as much. They just lack the scientific evidence to prove it.

The new research brings observers closer to that goal, said Dave Secor, a fisheries biologist with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. “Some of these numbers show potentially very large impacts to predation of prey species,” said Secor, who wasn’t involved with the studies.

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Noah Bressman, left, and Davis Carter fish for blue catfish in Maryland’s Nanticoke River as part of…

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A look at Indigenous names along the Susquehanna Greenway

PHOTO PROVIDED Shown is Chickies Rock in the lower Susquehanna in this photo by Adam Hoke provided by the Susquehanna Greenway.

The Susquehanna River has drawn people to its banks for thousands of years. Many of our Susquehanna Greenway River Towns were built where former Native American villages once maintained extensive agricultural fields, towns, and roads along the easily navigable shores of the Susquehanna River. Acknowledging the importance of Indigenous people in Pennsylvania’s past, present, and future is key to understanding and respecting the Susquehanna Greenway that we explore today.

Many familiar names throughout the Susquehanna Greenway have their roots in Native languages. In the Northern regions of the Susquehanna River, most Indigenous people spoke variations of the Haudenosaunee language – including Mohawk and Oneida – while those in the central and southern regions largely spoke Algonquian dialects.

In this article, you’ll learn about just a few of these parks, trails, and landmarks with key ties to Indigenous history. Remember, many of the paths we walk today have been walked for thousands of years.

Black Moshannon State Park

Situated along Moshannon Creek, Black Moshannon State Park was initially inhabited by Susquehannock people. The name Moshannon is derived from the Algonquian word “Mos’hanna’unk,” meaning “elk river place,” with “black” referring to the darkness of the water due to the plant tannins from the bog. Located within one of the most remote sections of the Susquehanna Greenway and the PA Wilds, it is also one of the few places you might see wild elk today.

PHOTO PROVIDED Shown is a view of Mocanaqua Trail in this photo by Debbie Perkins provided by the Susquehanna Greenway.

Catawissa

Catawissa, a borough in Columbia County that sits upon the banks of the Susquehanna, derives its name from the Indigenous word “Catawese.” Authorities differ…

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